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'''Photochrom''' ({{lang-de|'Photochrome'}}) is used to create a [[color print]] from a black and white photo [[Negative (photography)|negative]], using between four and fourteen [[lithography|lithograph]] stones, made from rocklike substances, to colorize the print with several different [[ink]]s.
The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when [[color photography]] was first being developed but commercially impractical. Photochrom was developed in [[Zürich]], hence its proper name being spelled without the final 'e,' and was brought to popularity by the [[Detroit Photographic Company]]. When the [[US Congress]] authorized the one-penny postcard, thousands of photochrom prints, usually of cities or landscapes, were created and sold as postcards. Photochrom typifies the look and feel of "postcard pictures" and hence ''photochrome'' may also refer to the modern age of color [[Postcard|postcards]] in America.
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Image:Mulberry Street NYC c1900 LOC 3g04637u edit.jpg|A photochrom of [[Mulberry Street (Manhattan)|Mulberry Street]] in [[New York City]], which shows the evocative coloration characteristic of the process.
Image:Hildesheim um 1900.jpg|A photochrom of [[Hildesheim]] town hall in the 1890s, using fewer color plates.
Image:Neuschwanstein Castle LOC print rotated.jpg| An 1890s photochrom print of [[Neuschwanstein Castle]].
Image:Shelbourne-Hotel-Dublin-ca-1900.jpeg|A circa-1900 photochrom print of [[Shelbourne Hotel]].
Image:Dogcart3.jpg|A photochrom of Belgian milk peddlers with a [[dogcart]], c. 1890-1900.
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== External links ==
*[http://www.photochrom.com/Photochrome.html About Photochroms]
*[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pgzquery.html The Library of Congress Public Domain Photochrom Prints Search]
*[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+Photochrom+prints+Color+1890+1900++)) 1890's Photochrom Prints]
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[[Category:Photographic techniques]]
[[Category:Postcards]]
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