Molding of an artistic casting (Kasli Iron Works), 1910. From the album “Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire”. Google Map, (Prokudin-Gorskii Collection/LOC)
Seriously check out the rest of this Boston Globe “Big Picture” set consisting of 20-odd other color photos from before color photography was popular. A glimpse into what we think of, visually, as the black and white world of the turn of the 20th century.
