They were taken using a process known as Autochrome, which debuted in 1907. It was invented by the Lumière brothers and was the earliest widely available color photography technique before film caught up in the 1930s.
The photographer is Mervyn O'Gorman, a famed British engineer. The girl is believed to be his daughter Christina, captured on a day at the beach in Lulworth Cove, southern England.
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