Hand-colored lantern slides and stereo images

Before the invention of color photography and before it became common, it was common practice to color photographs and films by hand. This was called to hand-coloring or hand-colouring. Sometimes the whole picture was colored and sometimes only selected parts was highlighted with color. For example could portraits get rosy cheeks and gold-plated jewelry.

Sometimes it can be difficult to determine whether it is a photograph that has been hand-colored or if it is a painted picture. The National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Sweden has quite a big collection of hand-colored photographs in the collection. Here are some examples of hand-colored photographs. Stereo images and lantern slides.

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