Autochrome
The first commercially available colour photographic process developed by the Lumiere brothers in France and patented in 1904. Autochromes are coloured transparent images on glass, similar to a slide, with deeply luminous colours and soft image outlines. They are viewed by being held up to the light or projected onto a surface. They were the most advanced form of colour photography until the development of the Kodachrome in the 1930s.
Olive Edis
by Katharine Legat (née Edis)
mid 1910s
NPG x45530
Olive Edis
by Sarah Jane Dugdale (née Hartland)
early 1900s
NPG x38479
Lady Ottoline Morrell
by Baron Adolph de Meyer
circa 1907
NPG P1099
Katharine Legat (née Edis); Emmeline McKendrick (née Edis)
by Olive Edis
mid 1910s
NPG x38475
Katharine Legat (née Edis)
by Olive Edis
mid 1910s
NPG x45517
Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
by Olive Edis
1914
NPG x7187
Thomas Hardy
by Olive Edis
1914
NPG x7186
George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne
by Olive Edis
1920
NPG x7198
John Galsworthy
by Olive Edis
1922
NPG x7178
Augustine Birrell
by Olive Edis
1925
NPG x7176
Ramsay MacDonald
by Olive Edis
1926
NPG x7196
George Bernard Shaw
by Olive Edis
1936
NPG x7208