Vibrant colored postcards from the turn of the 20th century

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Milk peddlers in Belgium.

Image: Library of Congress

In the 1880s, Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli, developed a process to produce colorized images from black and white photographic negatives

Dubbed “Photochrom,” the process was complex and closely guarded. It...

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