I’m like most people of my generation, in that I always think of anything pre-WWII as being in black and white. Because all I’ve ever seen are pictures and film of that era in black and white, I suppose I assume that’s how the world might have actually looked back then.

Some great work is being done to restore photos shot pre-WWI by a process that actually captured color images long before it became widely practiced. The result are some pretty amazing images from a time and place that previously always fell neatly into my black and white world. Click here to see the images (via MetaFilter).