This is an incredibly beautiful city.
Postcard “Belle Epoque Venice” ran a publishing company in Detroit, using the process of photochrome (Photochrom). Difficult technology required a lot of time, but it is possible to colorservice black and white photos already in the 19th century. This variant of chromolithography was invented in the 1880’s by Hans Jakob Schmidt, an employee of the Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli”.
The process involved creating a lithographic stone from the negative of a photograph. Each shade is made of a separate printed form. In the production of a single card could use more than a dozen of the printing stones. The result was a surprisingly realistic images in color.
