Couple kissing under blossoming tree, hand-colored photo postcard – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage postcard of Couple kissing under blossoming tree, hand-colored photo postcard. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Couple kissing under blossoming tree, hand-colored photo postcard
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A hand-colored photo postcard of a couple kissing beneath a blossoming tree belongs to a familiar early twentieth-century genre, when studio and drugstore printers turned black-and-white photographs into sentimental keepsakes. The colorist, usually a woman working by hand with thin oil or aniline tints, would paint in soft pinks for the blossoms and warm tones for the skin and clothing. Cards like this were mailed between sweethearts and friends, often around Valentine's Day, when a romantic scene could say what was hard to put into words. The pale, glossy surface and pastel palette are worth a close look, since they show how a camera image was softened into a Victorian-style valentine.
| Original scan | 507 × 804 px |
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| Reference | Img117 |
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