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A little bit more about the people who took photos and all of the photos can be found here. The submitted article is more or less blogspam

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/colony.html

As to the history of photography, when these were taken Fenton's [in]famous pictures of the Crimean War were already 50 years old. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky colour pics of the Russian empire are of about the same early 20th century vintage.

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Ah, thanks a lot for that link, much more information! The OP looks to be a bit misleading as well, not all of the photographs were necessarily from 1898:

  The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946.

Here’s a Library of Congress collection of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s colour photographs from the 1900s and 1910s; I particularly love his color portrait of Leo Tolstoy, who seems such a quintessential 19th-century figure but in fact lived long enough to sit for a color photograph in 1908:

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok

It certainly is 'blogspam' - at least one of the photos, complete with caption, is lifted from Wikipedia [0] (not even Wikipedia's source's caption [1]).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin

[1] - https://www.loc.gov/item/2019694946/

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