The origin of the colors in the first color photographs
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#3The earliest workable color photographs were made with potato starch!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re
My dad was a man with a lot of interests, one of which was the history of photography. He painstakingly reproduced just about every old photographic process that he could find documentation about (well pre-internet, so this mostly involved flea markets and libraries). The most dangerous ones were the Daguerreotypes, an early monochrome process that used mercury vapor for the development of the photographic plates. That nobody died or got really ill from that is a small miracle, he had absolutely no idea of how dangerous this all was.
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#4I took a class in photography a few years back, the history was discussed. I remember seeing the first picture ever containing people and it was was very fuzzy, the people were not as clearly people, as they are now in this photo (referring to picture 1 on this page http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/08/the-gift-of-the-dag...)