Wow, fair dinkum I never thought colour photography looked THAT good back then (with the aid of digital level adjustment), bloody awsome
!!!!! The photos looked as if they were shot only yesterday
!!!
Anyhow speaking of early colour photography, I've watched on History Channel on Austar PAY TV a doco on early colour films which there were colour films dating as early as 1906 up to the 1930s and they looked bloody awsome in colour accuracy, the quality ranged from scratchy on the earliest films to fantastic on the 1920s/30s colour films from memory at a frame rate of roughly 12-15 frames/sec I think. Anyhow I'm guessing they used some 3 colour additive method to make these films colour as I notice with some of the fast motion particularly on some girls dancing in dresses that there is flaring of red and blue of the swaying dresses.
Anyways I've done a little more searching on the net for early colour photos and found some more good examples of early colour photos
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/ . They aren't quite as superb as the Russion photos but still fantastic. There's also the oldest known colour photo on there dating 1872. Though as a lot of us know the first colour photograph was made in 1861 using I think 3 colour filter composite of a ribbon: