Color photograph of Amsterdam, Netherlands from the 1890's (life, black, England)
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Not to be a party pooper, but that isn't a "true" color photograph. It is a Photochrom print, a colorized black-and-white photo. That's why the colors don't look entirely realistic. Many, many colorized photos from that era still exist.
One of the earliest true color photographs is this landscape of a French village, dating from 1877.
For more remarkable old (true) color photos, take a look at these photographs taken by the French Army during World War I.
And from the same time period... a different method of photography that has allowed us to reproduce the original colors with breathtaking vividness: The Empire That Was Russia
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