Hidden Visual Resource
of Historic Color Images
In the late 19th - early 20th century photographers
in a number of countries used triple color technique for capturing color
images. A camera registered on a single glass plate three sepatate black
and white frames taken through the blue, green and red filters.Normally such negatives contain images of very high
resolution. Unfortunately a very small portion of these historic
negatives has survived. Those that did survive are preserved as triple
black and white glass plates, and until recently few of them have been
reconstucted and used in color.
The goal of this WWW site is to promote and facilitate access
of the research community and the general public to this spectacular
visual image of our civilization 100 years ago.