Photochrom Prints | Scutari and Three Fountains

Mavi Boncuk |

Title [Scutari, Constantinople, Turkey]

Created / Published [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].

Genre Photochrom[1] prints--Color--1890-1900

Notes

• -  Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
• -  Print no. "6401".

Print no. "6403".

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  Photograph shows the Kucuksu Fountain (Mihrisah Valide Sultan Fountain), Beykoz, Istanbul, with the Bosporus Straits behind it. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Tophane Fountain, Constantinople, Turkey

Alman (German) Fountain,Constantinople, Turkey

Created / Published [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]

[1] Photochrom, Fotochrom, Photochrome or the Aäc process is a process of hand-colouring photographs from a single black-and-white negative with subsequent photographic transfer onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). Because no color information was preserved in the photographic process, the photographer would make detailed notes on the colors within the scene and use the notes to hand paint the negative before transferring the image through colored gels onto the printing plates.

The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856–1924), an employee of the Swiss company Orell Gessner Füssli—a printing firm whose history began in the 16th century. Füssli founded the stock company Photochrom Zürich (later Photoglob Zürich AG) as the business vehicle for the commercial exploitation of the process and both Füssli and Photoglob continue to exist today.

-  More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz