Table of contents:
- 1. Girls with rocker arms
- 2. Dutch windmills
- 3. Oudezuids-Kolk Canal
- 4. Market on the ancient street
- 5. Fisherman's Island
- 6. Water channel
- 7. Monument of architecture
- 8. West gate of Haarlem
- 9. Windmill
- 10. Attractions of Nijmegen
- 11. Belvedere
- 12. Shopping arcade
- 13. Erasmus Bridge
- 14. Old Rotterdam
- 15. Mill in a luxurious city
Video: The humble charm of the Netherlands: Picturesque retro photographs taken in the late 19th century
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
These colorful postcards featuring picturesque landscapes, windmills and city canals were created in the Netherlands in the late 1890s. An employee of a Swiss printing company, Hans Jakob Schmidt, was able to turn black and white images into realistic color images. He did it using chromolithography technology using printed stones, and thanks to this, today we can see how people lived about 150 years ago.
1. Girls with rocker arms
2. Dutch windmills
3. Oudezuids-Kolk Canal
4. Market on the ancient street
5. Fisherman's Island
6. Water channel
7. Monument of architecture
8. West gate of Haarlem
9. Windmill
10. Attractions of Nijmegen
11. Belvedere
12. Shopping arcade
13. Erasmus Bridge
14. Old Rotterdam
15. Mill in a luxurious city
And nowadays, the Bloemencorso flower parade is held in the Netherlands. And this action looks really amazing.
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