Gallery: 12 Forgotten Hand-Colored Images of Life in the 1800s
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Clear Creek Canyon, Georgetown Loop, Colorado
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In this print, several plates were printed with different brown inks to capture the dusty wonder of the Grand Canyon.
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Photochroms predated color film by decades and combined the emerging science of photography with time-tested painting techniques.
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Mulberry Street, New York
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Multiple printing plates were made with each negative and parts of each plate were erased to feature a single color.
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The colors are saturated and sort of dreamlike rather than exact representations of the color spectrum.
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William Henry Jackson Diving for coins, Bahamas
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Sunset from the Battery, New York
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A Monday washing, New York
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The result are prints that combine photographic levels of detail with a painterly feel.
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Seminole Indian family in dugout canoe, Miami River, Florida
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The prints started out as traditional black and white negatives on glass.
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Zuni Pueblo Indians, the Rain Dance, New Mexico
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