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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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
>
>
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> <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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