These amazing images are from between the 1890s and 1900s, and were created using the Photochrom process, a method of producing colorized photographs from black and white negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates.
It was invented in the 1880s and was most popular in the 1890s, when these images were taken. Although true color photography had been developed by then it was not commercially practical yet. Photochrom reproductions became popular due to the craze with sending postcards.
Amsterdam’s famous Dam Square is also depicted with life as busy as ever in the country’s capital. People can be seen going about their business as several trams and horse and carts idle by. Other images show everyday life in Amsterdam around the turn of the century.
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