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A 1903 Sanger Shepherd process photograph of Col. Willoughby Verner by Sarah Angelina Acland, an English early pioneer colour photographer.

Sanger Shepherd and Company Limited was an electrical goods and photographic company that developed the Sanger Shepherd process for taking colour photographs.[1][2] The company led by Edward Sanger Shepherd was active from 1900 until 1927.[3]

Sarah Angelina Acland of Oxford, England, used the process among others for her early colour photography at the beginning of the 20th century,[4] with examples held at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. The process involved taking separate photographs through red, green, and blue coloured filters and then combining them later. A complete outfit cost £9/6/6 (£9.321/2p).[2]

The dye inhibition method of colour photography which underpinned the Sanger-Shepherd process set a pathway for future processes, notably Kodak's Dye-Transfer process of 1946.

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  1. ^ Shepherd, Sanger (1900). Natural Colour Photography: Sanger Shepherd Process. Sanger Shepherd. Retrieved 26 October 2015 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b Shepherd, Sanger. Provisional Catalogue of Apparatus and Materials for Natural Colour Photography: Sanger Shepherd Process. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Sanger-Shepherd and Company Limited". UK: National Museum of Science and Industry. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. ^ Hudson, Giles (14 November 2012). "Images for the news release "Sarah Angelina Acland re-discovered as one of the pioneers of colour photography"". Matters Photographical. WordPress. Retrieved 26 October 2015.