Mark Twain, photographed by Alvin Coburn, 1908. [via]
The only known color photograph of Leo Tolstoy, taken at his at his Yasnaya Polyana estate by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, 1908. [via]
What may be the only color photograph of King Edward VII, taken by Lionel de Rothschild in 1909 and found in a cupboard some 100 years later by his grandson. [via]
George Bernard Shaw, photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn in 1907. [via]
Auguste Rodin and his sculpture Eve, photographed by Edward Steichen, 1907. [via]
Charlie Chaplin, c. 1917. [via]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, photographed by Arnold Genthe, 1914. [via]
Emilie Flöge, whom we are used to seeing in color, but only in the paintings of her lover Gustav Klimt, photographed by Friedrich Walker, c. 1910. [via]
And Gustav Klimt himself, photographed by Friedrich Walker, c.1910. [via]
Just for fun, another gorgeous shot of Mark Twain by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908. [via]