Even though color photography wasn’t made widely available to the public until the 60s you can now see color images from as early as the turn of the century. It’s amazing to see that life wasn’t in black and white during those times.
An amazing collection of pictures from John C.H. Grabill, a western photographer in the late 1800′s. These images were sent to the Library of congress for copyright between 1887 and 1892.