February 10, 2018

Photochrome (aka Fotochrom, Photochrom, and the Aäc process) is a method of producing colour photographs, or perhaps more properly colourised images, that was invented in the 1880s. A variant of chromolithography, it achieved great popularity when coupled with the emergent technology of postcards, then gradually faded from use as regular colour film was introduced and became more commercially viable.

Wikimedia: Ljubljana in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Ljubljana from Tivoli Castle in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Lake Bled in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Lake Bled in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Lake Bled in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Vintgar Gorge in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Vintgar Gorge in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Maribor in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Postojna Cave in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Lake Bohinj in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Koper in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Piran in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Piran in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Peasants near Trieste, once part of Slovenia, in the 1890s

Wikimedia: Girl in native costume in the 1890s