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Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

Prepare to see the City of Light like you’ve never seen it before. For most of us, this pre-war city has always existed in black and white. But in these photographs, Paris is bursting with color. All the photos shown below were made using Autochrome Lumière technology. It’s an early color photography process, patented in 1903 and invented by the famous French Auguste and Louis Lumière, populary known as Lumière Brothers. They were the earliest filmmakers in history.

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Montagne Sainte-Geneviève street

3ccc4b812921b859b2d0241589996dc5Rue Cambon street, 1918

7b1f810c254e0453500228b51add5200Next to The National Residence of the Invalides, 1910

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519f595678dd7c46446bcd897a9a2e88Rue Rambuteau street, 1914

08985c978af9c1dccb8a1b0444b911a4Rue du Pot de Fer street, 1914

10387c351d014cde9b48e0704d368fe0La Samaritaine department store, 1930

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Rue Mouffetard street

c8a91d554f54fbe4bdfcdfedc8c0a994 (1)Hotel de Ville, 1919

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fdb22c52ef481ad0cdc6b10d9d0bed8eBoulevard Exelmans, 1920