Sepia Saturday: Photochrome
A little color, 1890s style, from around the world. Women of the Caucacus - Library of Congress Collection LC-DIG-ppmsc -03930 Traveling by Reindeer, Archangel, Russia - Library of Congress Collection - hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.03931 Distinguished Moorish Women, Algiers - Library of Congress Collection (LC-DIG-ppmsc-05553) Photochrome prints are colorized images produced from black and white photo negatives that are directly transferred onto lithographic printing plates. The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856 - 1924). It was popular in the 1890s, when color photography was in existence but still commercially impractical. Sepia Saturday.
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My Ruby Tuesday , have a lovely evening.
A TOUCH OF RED
They say that just one touch of red
Will put big, bold thoughts in your head.
So scarlet’s for you,
And burgundy too,
And cardinal and carmine—‘nuff said!
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Feast of Reds