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Catalog - Colored Images
Colorizing images in the late Ninetienth and early Twentieth Centuries could be done on individual pieces, either lantern slides or photographs, by tinting. This craft has enjoyed a revival today. Color images could also be created through a printing process which made color much more expensive.
A Russian, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, traveled through Russia, still an Empire, recording the life of the people in color. This required a traveling railroad car. His glass negatives are now at the Library of Congress. They are astonishing and beautiful, a moment into history. Discover a little more about these early advances on this site and begin to look for more.
Pillsbury used color printing, sometimes sent to Germany for production, for his color postcards. His colored flower identification cards were hand tinted.
Pillsbury Picture Company Catalogue
Color Printed Cards, copyrighted 1907 by
The Pillsbury Picture Company
No. 1
No. 2 Presbyterian Church, Alameda, Cal.
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No. 5 Christ Church, Alameda, Cal.
No. 6 Strawberry Creek, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 7 Hotel Claremont
No. 8
No. 9 University of California Library, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 10 California Hall – University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 11 Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 12 Football Statue – University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 13
No. 14 Deaf-Dumb and Blind Institute, Berkeley, Cal.
No. 15 Lake Chabot near Oakland, Cal.
[postmarked 1909]
[postmarked 1909]No. 16
No. 17
No. 18 Haverford and Ohio Tree
No. 19
No. 20 St. Mary’s College, Oakland, Cal.[postmarked 1909]
[postmarked 1909]No. 21 First Congregationalist Church, Oakland, Cal.
No. 22 Carnegie Library, Oakland, Cal.
No. 23
No. 24 Lake Merritt
No. 25
No. 26
No. 27 High School, Oakland, Cal.
No. 28
No. 29 Lake Merritt, Oakland Cal
No. 30 Club House at Piedmont Springs, Oakland, Cal.
No. 31 Panorama of Waterfront, Oakland, Cal.
No. 32 Panorama of Oakland, Cal.
