The first color photograph of the world.

 

1861— Thomas Sutton collaborated with the theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell to take three separate exposures of a tartan ribbon through red, green and blue filters. The developed negatives were projected through separate magic lanterns, with the same coloured filters, on to a screen to create a single image at the Royal Institution in London and the principle of colour photography was born.

The first printed color photographs were made by Louis Ducos de Hauron in 1868. 

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source: Quora