These postcards of Scotland has released a printing office from Detroit to the late 19th century.
To create used process photochrom allowed to paint black and white image in bright and amazingly realistic colours.
This variant of chromolithography was invented in the 1880’s by Hans Jakob Schmidt, a Swiss employee of the printing company “Orell Gessner Füssli”. He envisioned the creation of lithographic stone from a negative image. Each shade is made of a separate printed form. Thus, in the production of a single card could use more than a dozen printed stones of different shades.
The method was extremely time consuming and required painstaking attention to detail, but the cards turned out surprisingly realistic. City, natural scenery, castles and the people depicted in vivid colors with a high degree of credibility.
