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Photoglob Co. — India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck

Photoglob Co.

India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck

1890

Street scenes like this one reveal how photochrom technology enabled mass distribution of ethnographic imagery, offering Western viewers their first colorized glimpses of daily life in colonial India.

Medium
Photochrom

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Photoglob Co., India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck, 1890

Street scenes like this one reveal how photochrom technology enabled mass distribution of ethnographic imagery, offering Western viewers their first colorized glimpses of daily life in colonial India.

Medium
Photochrom
Year
1890
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Documentary, Photochrom, Landscape, Swiss, Historical, Colorful, Architecture

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