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Pre-photographic

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Planographic
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Photomechanical

Collotype
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Offset Lithography
Photogravure
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Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
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

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Notes on this view:

This hand-colored real photo postcard portrays a WWI-era French soldier. Beneath the image the message, “Bonne Année” or “Happy New Year” has been optically printed. French romantic hand-colored tableaux postcards such as this were extremely popular during WWI. The postcard industry peaked around this time, which is often referred to as the “golden age” of real-photo postcards due to an increase in correspondence during the war. The images often evoke love, longing, and patriotism inferring these postcards should be sent from a soldier to a significant other or vise versa. However, the message on the back of this postcard is addressed to an aunt and uncle.