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18 January 2013

Rare colour photos of World War I discovered

Photographer Anton Orlov recently discovered over 600 colour images from World War I on "Magic Lantern" slides in a house in Northern California.

Utter devastation
The images depict snow-covered villages, train tracks, bullet-riddled buildings, and soldiers in trenches, by houses and on trains. The pictures were taken in Russia, China and Japan. The slides were hand-coloured and the colorus have been preserved wonderfully. 


You also might want to read all the background information about these pictures available at http://thephotopalace.blogspot.com/2013/01/wwi-and-russian-revolution-photos-found.html