Nov 12, 2010

Stories of Old

I stumbled upon the Libray of Congress' photostream on flickr. I could spend days looking through these pictures. I was surprised to find out that the Istanbul (Constantinople) pictures, especially #2 and #3, are photochrom and not photographs (more about photochroms).

Turkey between 1890-1900






School in New York between 1910 - 1915
(notice the captions on the photographs)






3 comments:

  1. these are amazing, so much life in them and story behind it all, i want to see more now :)

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  2. "A Photochrom is a color photo lithograph, produced from a black-and-white negative. The final prints were created using different color impressions from multiple lithographic stones." (http://www.photochrom.com/what.html)

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