It was a time of fundamental change. While old people still live in fishing villages and under windmills, in Rotterdam the first European skyscrapers are already being built according to the US model. The art nouveau building is called the Witte Huis and was built in 1898. At that time, between 1890 and 1900, photographers of the time took shots of unique Dutch color, which can serve as a nostalgic guide today.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, photography was still in its infancy and most photographs were taken only in black and white. But at that time, very interesting color pictures were also being created. They are produced, for example, using a technique called photochromic printing, in which black-and-white photographs are initially colored by hand. This is how the pictures in our photo gallery were created, capturing the beauty of Holland over 120 years ago.
At the time of the birth of the 20th century, photochromes were very popular among postcard manufacturers, which is why a number of shots have been preserved depicting many world landmarks of that time.
The American company Detroit Publishing Company was at one time an important postcard manufacturer. He has amassed a vast archive of several thousand photochromes from around the world. Now this archive (including excerpts from Spain) belongs to the collection US Library of Congress.
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