Huge hand colored photo

Did you know that, before color film existed, monochrome photographs were often hand-painted? Yes, today #historyofphotography ... huge #ancientphotograph 47 x 31 cm on cardboard; #hand-colored as was done between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, of a family unit with a #military father and a child dressed as a #sailor. On the back you can see an #ancientadvertisement and there is the surname of the family represented: Spiller.