Graphics Atlas: Guided Tour

Compare with Another Print

from the group: Chromogenic

Select a New Process: X

Pre-photographic

Intaglio

Planographic

Relief

Photomechanical

Collotype

Letterpress

Offset Lithography

Offset Lithograph (Halftone Postcard)

Photogravure

Rotogravure

Woodburytype

Photographic

Albumen

Ambrotype

Bromoil

Bromoil

Bromoil Transfer

Carbon

Carbro

Chromogenic

Collodion POP

Cyanotype

Daguerreotype

Direct Carbon (Fresson)

Dye Imbibition

Gelatin Dry Plate

Gelatin POP

Gum Dichromate

Instant (Diffusion Transfer)

Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)

Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)

Matte Collodion

Platinum

Salted Paper

Screen Plate

Silver Dye Bleach

Silver Gelatin DOP

Tintype

Wet Plate Collodion

Digital

Electrophotography

Inkjet

Thermal

view fullscreen

Notes on this view:

This object is significant because it is likely an example of Ansco Color Film issued strictly to U.S. and Allied armed forces during or just after WWII.

This slide is part of a larger collection of slides taken by U.S. soldiers in Japan on both Ansco Color and Kodachrome Film. In 1936 the German company, Agfa, released the first internal dye coupler film called Agfa Color Neu to the European market. An affiliated U.S. company, Ansco, released Ansco Color in the U.S. in 1938. However, at the onset of the war the U.S. government took over Ansco and all film produced went to the U.S. and Allied forces. After the war Ansco Color was renamed Anscochrome and made available to the public. Most early chromogenic film transparencies are based on Agfa technology although later materials followed Kodak technology (Kodacolor).