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There was color photography (not merely the colorizing of a print) in the 
19th century, but on a very limited experimental basis, but true color 
photography really began with the autochrome, introduced commercially in 
1907. Two photographers photographed Twain using autochrome plates, a week 
apart in 1908.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Wise" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo


> Yes, I remember seeing it here before, and probably replied then with=20
> the same reference I'm linking here now, which proves that the=20
> colorization was indeed a fantasy since color didn't come into the 
> world=20
> until the 1930s, as any student of photography, such as Calvin's dad, =20
> well knows: =20
> http://brake-down.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Invention-of-Col=
> or.jpg
>
> And btw, I couldn't get those archive links to open.  Are they really 
> avail=
> able?
>
> Ben
>
>
>    ----- Original Message -----  From: [log in to unmask] 
> <lexetlibris@=
> YAHOO.COM>  To: [log in to unmask]  Sent: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 18:44:54 -0000 
> (UT=
> C)  Subject: Re: Twain colorized photo    Folks-- This photograph (and the 
> =
> practice of colorization) has already been=3D   discussed on the Forum. 
> See=
> the Forum thread of 10 October 2013 with the S=3D  ubject line 
> "Colorizing=
> photos from 19C: including MT," started by Hal Bush=3D  . Here is a link 
> t=
> o that initial Forum posting: 
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3D=
> 3Dind1310&L=3D3DTWAIN-L&P=3D3DR1242&I=3D  =3D3D-3    The article cited in 
> h=
> is e-mail--containing the same colorized photo of MT,=3D   at Dollis 
> Hill--=
> is still a functioning URL: 
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2446=
> 391/Amazing-Civil-War-photograp=3D 
> hs-created-colorist-bring-eras-heroes-c=
> haracters-life-color-time.html    The location is verified as Dollis Hill, 
> =
> 1900, per a Forum posting at that =3D  time by none other than Robert 
> Hirst=
> of the Mark Twain Project: 
> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=3D3D=
> ind1310&L=3D3DTWAIN-L&P=3D3DR1824&I=3D  =3D3D-3    The copyright for that 
> p=
> hoto, as it appears in the Daily Mail, is "Mads Dah=3D  l Madsen / 
> Dynamich=
> rome."    Hope this helps!    M. L. 
> istmas    --------------------------=
> ------------------  On Sat, 3/8/14, Fred Harwood  wrote:     Subject: Re: 
> T=
> wain colorized photo -   To: [log in to unmask]   Date: Saturday, March 8, 
> 20=
> 14, 11:37 AM  =3D20   The link contains as much as I know   about the 
> photo=
> .  =3D20   Google around for the source. My brief effort suggested that 
> m=
> any have =3D3D   posted it, but without linking to original work.  =3D20 
> =
> =3D20   On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Kit Barry    wrote:  =3D20   > Thank 
> yo=
> u for this image. It came out very well on my   printer.   > Since this 
> ima=
> ge is going into the archive I curate, it   would   > be most helpful if I 
> =
> could add the following   information:   >=3D3D20   >=3DA0 -=3DA0 When was 
> =
> photograph taken:   >=3D3D20   >=3DA0 -=3DA0 By whom:   >=3D3D20 
>   >=3DA0 -=
> =3DA0 Where was photograph taken, as in   Hartford, Elmira, other: 
>  >=3D3D=
> 20   >=3DA0 -=3DA0 Was the original photograph a sepia   print, black & 
> whi=
> te:   >=3D3D20   >=3DA0 -=3DA0 When and by whom was the photograph 
> colori=
> zed:   >=3D3D20   >=3DA0 -=3DA0 Method of colorization:   >=3D3D20 
>  >=3DA0=
> -=3DA0 Is it known why this photograph was   taken, as in for a special =
> =3D3D   occasion:   >=3D3D20   > -=3DA0 Was this photograph used for a 
> spec=
> ific   purpose, as in publicity:   >=3D3D20   > Thanking you in advance, 
> =
>>=3D3D20   > Kit Barry   > The Ephemera Archive for American Studies   > 
>>Br=
> attleboro, Vermont  =3D20   Fred Harwood   Linwood Cottage   Sheffield
>
>
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