This 1910 image is perhaps the earliest colour photograph of London

This 1910 image is perhaps the earliest colour photograph of London.

Twitter/@babelcolour enhanced this remarkable and rare shot of an Edwardian billboard, advertising Sarah Bernhardt and 'The Sins of London', a New Melodrama at the Lyceum. This is not colourised.

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