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33 Vintage Postcards of the Netherlands

The windmills, canals, and cities in the Netherlands are a sight to see. But looking through these postcards of Holland in the late 1890s sheds some light on what life was like back then. The postcards use the Photochrom process - a technique for applying lifelike color to black-and-white images. 
 

The Photocrom was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of a Swiss printing company. The process starts by applying a light-sensitive emulsion to a lithographic limestone tablet and expositing it to sunlight under a photo negative for several hours. A single Photochrom may require hours of labor to produce. In fact, the Photocrom process is a painstaking and time consuming one. Yet it was capable of creating remarkably precise color images at a time when true color photography was just starting to be developed. 
 
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1. Girls on market island.
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2. A typical windmill in Holland. 
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3. A canal in Amsterdam.
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4. The great market, Nijmegen.
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5. Children on market island.
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6. Canal in the Hague.
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7. Town Hall, Haarlem.
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8. Amsterdam Gate, Haarlem.
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9. Catherine bridge and the windmill, Haarlem.
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10. The Town Hall and great market, Nijmegen.
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11. Belvedere, Nijmegen.
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12. Arcade, Rotterdam.
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13. Two bridges on the Meuse, Rotterdam.
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14. A canal in Rotterdam.
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15. Coolvest, Rotterdam.
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16. The road to the Scheveningen.
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17. The beach at Scheveningen.
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18. Beach chairs at Scheveningen.
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19. Boats on the beach at Scheveningen.
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20. Beachgoers and the Kursaal, Scheveningen.
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21. Ouda Gracht: Bakkerbrug, Utrecht.
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22. The Witte Huis, Rotterdam.
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23. A park in Utrecht.
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24. A pond in Arnhem.
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25. Beekhuizen, Arnhem.
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26. Janssingel, Arnhem.
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27. Water tower, Delft.
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28. The Knights' Hall in the Hague.
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29. Cathedral Interior, Rotterdam.
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30. Inside a home on Marken Island.
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31. The Binnehof and Court Pond at The Hague.
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32. Dam Square, Amsterdam.
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33. A man on Marken Island.
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