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A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911.

This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, yellow and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans.

This file is in the public domain; it was taken from the Library of Congress' website and converted from TIFF to PNG. Its resolution is much higher than that of Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-19.jpg which it is intended to replace.

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This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years or less.

--Zantastik 02:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Description	English: A picture of Alim Khan (1880-1944), Emir of Bukhara, taken in 1911. This is one of the earliest color photographs in existence and was originally taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire. It was taken using three black-and-white exposures, with red, green and blue filters respectively, long before color photographic printing existed. The three resulting images were projected using color filters to create a color projection. More recently, the Library of Congress has scanned Prokudin-Gorskii's work and contracted with other firms to produce high-resolution color images from the black and white scans. Deutsch: Eine der ersten Farbfotografien - photografiert von Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii im Zuge seiner Dokumentation des russischen Reiches. Das Bild wurde aus 3 Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahmen mit rotem, grünem beziehungsweise blauem Filtern erstellt. Die so entstandenen Bilder wurden mit Farbfiltern projiziert um eine Farbprojektion zu erhalten. Die Library of Congress hat Prokudin-Gorskiis Werk eingescannt und in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Firmen aus den Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern Farbbilder in hoher Auflösung erstellt.
Source	Taken from the Library of Congress' website and converted from TIFF to PNG. TIFF file from LOC
Date	1911
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Permission	This file is in the public domain in Russia. It was published before January 1, 1954, and the creator (if known) died before that date (For veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the critical date is January 1, 1950). Works belonging to the former Soviet government or other Soviet legal entities published before January 1st, 1954, are also public domain in Russia. (This is the effect of the retroactive Russian copyright law of 1993 and the copyright term extension from 50 to 70 years in 2004.) A Russian or Soviet work that is in the public domain in Russia according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in Russia in 1996, e.g. if it was published before 1946 (1942 for WWII veterans) and the creator died before that year, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of the retroactive Russian copyright law of 1993, Russia's joining the Berne Convention in 1995, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)
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