some photographs that may be of interest .....

[Francoise Rosset]

>Does anyone know how the color was achieved?  Was it with the 
>3-colour lense method?
>
>Natalie Kononenko


The LOC site has a long explanation of how to "get" the color result 
from the original plates.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/making.html
I don't know if that's the exact answer to your question. But yes, it 
does involve three separate color filters or perhaps lenses. The book 
has an extensive description of the process as well.
-FR

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Francoise Rosset
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Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Wheaton College                         
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
        
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e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu

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