In related spirit, colour photographs of early 1900s tsarist Russia by Prokudin-Gorsky are also pretty amazing.
Edit: and most if not all are in public domain. Sample: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokud...
Edit: and most if not all are in public domain. Sample: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Mikhailovich_Prokud...
You can find all reconstructed images here: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/