The World 125 Years Ago in Color — 140 Photochrom Photos From the 1890s

Long before colour film, the Swiss "Photochrom" process turned black-and-white negatives into vivid colour prints. Between about 1890 and 1905 the Photoglob company in Zürich and the Detroit Publishing Co. in the USA used it to record the whole world: Venice and Amsterdam, the Alps, Victorian seaside resorts, the markets of Tunis, the harbour of Calcutta, Chicago and the Wild West. 140 photochrom prints · 7 chapters · no narration, just calm classical music. Which photo is your favorite? Tell us its number in the comments 👇 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:11 Part I — Great Cities 4:29 Part II — By the Sea 6:48 Part III — Mountains and Wonders 10:06 Part IV — Castles and Palaces 12:34 Part V — People of 1900 15:52 Part VI — Across the Oceans 18:03 Part VII — The New World Images: Photochrom Print Collection, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons. Music (public domain recordings): Chopin – Nocturnes (Musopen: Frank Lévy, Luke Faulkner); Satie – Gymnopédies (Michael Laucke). #history #oldphotos #1900s