The following images show Scottish cities, towns and attractions during the 1890s – and in color. They were created using the Photochrom technique pioneered by Photoglob Zürich AG, which sees color manually added to black and white negatives.
The process was extremely time-consuming and required painstaking attention to detail, but the result was color postcards which captured the cities, moors, and ruined castles of Scotland with an impressive degree of verisimilitude, particularly at a time when true color photography was just being developed.
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| The Sands, Dumfries |
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| High Street, Dumfries |
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| Castle Street and municipal buildings, Aberdeen |
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| Cathedral |
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| St. Enoch’s Station |
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| The bridge |
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| George Square |
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| High Street, Hawick |
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| Union Terrace, Aberdeen |
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| Teighness, Arrochar |
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| From Craigcoynach, Ballater |
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| Henderson Street West, Bridge of Allan |
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| From south, Creiff (i.e. Crieff) |
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| Templand Bridge, Cumnock |
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| High Street, Dumbarton |
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| Lincluden Abbey, Dumfries |
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| Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries |
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| The Lochan, Dunoon |
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| East Bay, Dunoon |
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| Edinburgh from the castle |
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| Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh |
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| Princess Street and castle from Scott’s Monument |
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| Princess Street and Calton Hill |
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| Princess Street, the castle, and Scott Monument |
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| Entrance to Glen Nevis, Fort William |
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| Kennedy’s Pass, Girvan |
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| University, Glasgow |
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| Esplanade from west, Helensburgh |
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| Cathedral and castle from the Ness, Inverness |
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| Irvine from the river |
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| The cross, Kilmarnock |
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| Bannatyne, Kyles of Bute |
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| Hotel and Ben Lui, Loch Awe |
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| Tarlair, Macduff |
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| General view, Oban |
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| Port Patrick from the southwest |
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| The beach, Portobello |
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| East Bay, Rothsay (i.e. Rothesay) |
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| General view, Sma Glen |
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| Stirling, from Abbey Craig |
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| Old bridge, Stirling |
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| General view, Stonehaven |
