Spectacular hand-colored postcards of 19th-century Venice

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The Grand Canal by moonlight.

Image: Library of Congress

These postcards of Belle Époque Venice were printed by the Detroit Publishing Company using the Photochrom process, a time-consuming and exacting technique by which convincing layers of artificial color are applied to black and white photos and reproduced.

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