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Underground Color Photos

The Dome Room in New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern marked the first underground color photograph ever shot, published in the September 1925 issue of National Geographic. The Geographic has made a number of color photographic firsts, including the first undersea color photographs and the first color photographs from the air.

Photograph by Jacob J. Gayer