stumbled across these photos taken by russian photography sergey prokudin-gorsky, the photos date back to around 1915. pretty cool seeing the word at a time most of us would have thought of as black and white.
this is the technique he used, basically took three monochrome pictures through three different coloured lenses (red, green and blue), to create the image of colour. here's some of his flicks, from early 20th century russia: