Photochrome prints of people

Photochrom or photochrome prints are a type of color prints that were very popular between 1890 and 1910. The photochrome process was mainly used to print postcards. Below is a collection of portraits creating using this process.

A girl from the Schwarzwald region in Germany

A milk seller in Brussels, Belgium

An Irish farmer

An old woman with a spinning wheel, Ireland

Dutch kids in Marken Island, Netherlands

Another girl from the Black Forest, Germany

Arrowmaker, an Ojibwa brave

Branding calves in Colorado, USA (detail)

Can’t get enough of these historic photos?  Check out additional photochroms of North America, England, Ireland, Belgium, the European continent and of sailing boats and steamers in harbors.