William Gullick, Mary, Zoe, Marjory, and Chloe Gullick, c.1909, autochrome, State Library of New South Wales, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Just a Second: Autochrome

Autochrome (noun)

An autochrome is a color photograph created with a glass filter that is covered with a colored mosaic of dyed potato starch.  Louis Lumière invented the process in 1903.

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