From the March 10, 2011, Yahoo! News.
Museum volunteers have found perhaps the only color photographs to be taken of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Six never-before-published images taken by photo-innovator Frederick Eugene Ives several months after the April earthquake have been found. Most were taken from the roof of a hotel where he was staying in October.
They had been stored all these years with a collection of items donated by his son, Herbert Ives.
They were discovered in 2009by National Museum of American History volunteer Anthony brooks when cataloguing the collection. Hand-colored photos of the even have surfaced before, but this is probably the only ones still in color.
Ives was one of the few photographers back then with expertise with color and these pictures were to be 3-D in a device he invented that never caught on. It is known for sure that he visited San Francisco in October, but it is also possible that he might have been there earlier.
Of interest, Ives is also known for inventing the halftone reproduction process still used to print photos in newspapers.
Check them Out. --Cooter
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