# Colour photos of early 20th century Paris

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961 "2013-01-31T21:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961/1 "2013-01-31T21:46:16Z")

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Here’s a [link to](http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/)a collection of photos of Paris taken around 1910 or thereabouts. They’re absolutely stunning.

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**Author:** ![Mustardseed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mustardseed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mustardseed)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961/2 "2013-01-31T23:54:38Z")

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Many thanks for this link, that is truly astonishing.

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**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-photos-of-early-20th-century-paris/648961/3 "2013-02-01T01:58:08Z")

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The comments there had a link to [this website](http://www.paris1914.com/) where the pictures have captions. Pretty amazing stuff.