> they don't look anything like how we expect a 1930s-era photo to appear You should have a look into Autochrome photography. The photos look amazingly realist

> they don't look anything like how we expect a 1930s-era photo to appear You should have a look into Autochrome photography. The photos look amazingly realistic for their age. For example, these are from 1913: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/03/world/gallery/autochrome-christina/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/03/world/gallery/autochrome-... Wikipedia also has an amazing collection of works by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#Gallery From 1909: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Gorskii_04422u.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Gorskii_... Autochrome of the 1909 Paris Air Show: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNHVt00nUlgx4vpP6GtzW6Odob3W9vCwiasCPKPd0rPbAW8HAEs-MAJEsifh8dCkWvPymMLtG7QeWdnCgZlfxtqnR30EDQgEo27CnnPXJXZVRbVoE1r6HiYmRamO7MpgvKrfo7JFVPaXpJ/s1200/BAB4.jpg https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg... Also Paris, 1910: https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/albert-kahns-archives-of-the-planet/06-Paris(XVIIIearr.)-FranceLeMoulin-Rouge-boulevarddeClichy_A7462-edit-double.jpg?fit=max&w=1200&h=850&auto=format,compress https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/albert-kah...