These postcards of Scotland at the end of the 19th century were produced by the Detroit Publishing Company using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying vibrant and surprisingly realistic color to black and white images.
The process, invented in the 1880s by an employee of a Swiss printing company, involves coating lithographic limestone tablets with a light sensitive emulsion and exposing them to light under a photo negative.
Farmers bring their cattle to the market town of Dumfries.
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For each tint to be used in the final color composite, an additional litho stone is created.
The process was extremely time-consuming and required painstaking attention to detail, but the result was color postcards which captured the cities, moors, and ruined castles of Scotland with an impressive degree of verisimilitude, particularly at a time when true color photography was just being developed.
Highland cattle.
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Lincluden Abbey, Dumfries.
A river near Kirkcudbright.
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The coastline near Macduff.
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The 12th century Dunskey Castle near the village of Portpatrick.
The harbor at Rothesay.
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Linn of Muick, a waterfall on the river Muick in Aberdeenshire.
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The town of Stirling, as seen from Abbey Craig.
Medieval Dunnottar Castle, near Stonehaven.
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15th-century Carrick Castle on Loch Goil.
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14th-century Threave Castle, near the town of Castle Douglas.
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Wallace Monument on Abbey Craig near Stirling, a monument to Sir William Wallace.
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