Dazzling color postcards of the cities and countryside of the 1890s Netherlands

March 5, 2017 Posted By: Leave a comment
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Girls on Marken Island.

Image: Library of Congress

These postcards of the windmills, canals and cities of the late 1890s Netherlands were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying lifelike color to black-and-white images.

Invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee...

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