Somewhere to lose yourself ....

Polorise · #1 28.08.2008, 09:53

Came across this great site : Old Picture, which has a wide selection of photo tints, daguerrotypes, photographs etc, covering the globe ... couple of personal favourites of mine :

Hamburg - circa 1890

Photochrome - 1895

enjoy

Rustygraben · #2 28.08.2008, 10:25

The site has quite a few pictures of Switzerland.

Two colour photochrome prints of Zurich views from the end of the 19th century (there are many more):

From Utoquay, Zurich

The Limmatquay, with Polytechnic, Zurich

Zug bound · #3 28.08.2008, 17:07

Brilliant, thank you very much. On the downside I've just spent 25 minutes looking through there when I could have been ironing. Heyho!

Texaner · #4 28.08.2008, 17:49

What a treasure trove! Thanks for sharing!

swissotter · #5 28.08.2008, 18:03

	Quote:	Polorise
	Came across this great site : Old Picture, which has a wide selection of photo tints, daguerrotypes, photographs etc, covering the globe ... couple of personal favourites of mine : Hamburg - circa 1890 Photochrome - 1895 enjoy

hey polo (can i call u that?)
i prefered it when you were in the "olympics" frame of mind!