Color photos of popular tourist spots taken more than 100 years ago

These beautiful photos show what the main tourist places of the world looked like at a time when color photography was just beginning to develop.

The images were created on the basis of black-and-white negatives using one of the first photo coloring techniques invented in the 1880s by Swiss chemist Hans Jacob Schmidt. Taken in an era when color photography was not yet widespread, these images shed light on how the streets of Naples, the Marble Boat in the Summer Palace of Beijing, Red Square and other popular tourist destinations at the end of the XIX century looked like.

People taste street food, Naples, 1899.

Marble Boat, Summer Palace, Beijing, between 1889 and 1911.

Camel drivers in the Syrian desert, 1895.

Riffelhaus Hotel, Riffelberg, Switzerland, 1895.

Lucerne, Switzerland, between 1889 and 1902.

Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva and a view of the Dan du Midi mountain, Switzerland.

Port workers meet a cruise ship, Algeria, 1896.

Moscow River, Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia.

Old Port, Marseille, France.

The train leaves the tunnel, Switzerland, March 1901.

Eddystone Lighthouse, Plymouth, England, between 1889 and 1911.

A man and a child walk along a stream, Biskra, Algeria.