Turkey between 1890-1900
School in New York between 1910 - 1915
(notice the captions on the photographs)
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
Turkey between 1890-1900
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these are amazing, so much life in them and story behind it all, i want to see more now :)
ReplyDeleteWhat's a photochrom?
ReplyDelete"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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