Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Categories: History

Photochromes are bright, hand-made color images based on black-and-white negatives. Photochromes appear as a result of a process that peaked in popularity in the 1890s. In the unique color frames, slightly reminiscent of watercolor sketches due to the unnatural colors, you can see the world as it was 137 years ago, when color photography itself was in its infancy.

Photochrome as a method consisted in creating color images based on colored photonegatives by direct transfer to lithographic printing plates. The inventor of the method was the Swedish chemist Hans Jakob Schmidt. After the First World War, which put an end to the craze for photochromic postcards, this technology was used only for posters and reproductions. The last photochrome-based printer was discontinued in 1970.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Algerian women at home, 1899.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Ribeira Square in the Portuguese city of Porto, circa 1903.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Lauterbrunnen and the Staubbach Waterfall, Switzerland, circa 1900s.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Al-Zaytoun Mosque in Tunis, 1896.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Rhenish Waterfall, Switzerland, circa 1890.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Farmers of Guria, Georgia, 1904.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Disembarkation of passengers off the coast of Algiers, 1896.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Street food in Naples, Italy, 1899.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Munot Fortress in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, 1893.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Camel drivers heading into the desert, 1895.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Men smoke a hookah at the entrance to a coffee shop, Istanbul, 1897.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

An alley in the Old Town of Biskra, Algeria, 1900.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Young milk merchants with a cart pulled by a dog.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

An elderly Irish woman with a spinning wheel, County Galway, Ireland, 1890s.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

Entrance to Fingal's sea cave at low tide, 1900.

Unique hand-painted photos from the 1890s

The ruins of the castle of Arc near the French city of Dieppe, 1895.

Keywords: History | Negative | Color photos | Black and white photography | XIX century

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