Gorgeous color postcards capture life in 1899 Tunisia

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Souc-el-Trouk, Tunis.

Image: Library of Congress

These color postcards of the sun-baked streets and Moorish architecture of Tunisia were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying realistic color to monochrome images that predated the spread of practical color photography.

Invented by a Swiss printer...

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