In my "travels" and "surfing" though my readers I came across the following link to some awesome COLOR photos from early 1900 Russia, see the link:

http://www.socyberty.com/History/The-Incredible-Century-Old-Color-Photography-of-Prokudin-Gorsky.797569/3

and one of the comments shared a link with: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

which has more information and addtional photos.

Take a look, they are unbelievable.

I am enjoying going through the readers and connecting some of the interesting ones to my google reader but this is definitly information overload...there are oceans of information, to pique the interest of anyone!