Keywords: Kromogram No 1 Vase of flowers circa 1896 large.jpg en A stereoscopic Kromogram by Frederic Eugene Ives 1856-1937 issued in 1897 As shown at left it consists of three pairs of transparent black-and-white positive photographs on glass mounted in cardboard frames hinged together with cloth tape The images were originally photographed through red top pair deep blue middle pair and green lower pair color filters To be seen in color the Kromogram had to be viewed through an Ives Kromskop pronounced chrome-scope which used colored glass filters to illuminate each image pair with the correct color of light and transparent reflectors to visually superimpose the three The user looked through a pair of lenses and saw a three-dimensional image in full natural color Monoscopic 2-D Kromskops and Kromograms were also made At upper right a digital color composite of the three image pairs It is a simple combination of the black-and-white images as red green and blue color channels and has not been color-corrected or artificially enhanced in any way At lower right a large version of the right-eye image derived from a composite color photographic print on paper made in the 1950s It is included to show detail not visible in the stereoscopic images due to the low resolution of the available source material Whole-image contrast and color balance adjustments have been used to more closely match it to the unadjusted small images 1897 first publication; original photography possibly a year or two earlier Uploaded 2012-10-08 18 47 00 Complete Kromogram http //museumvictoria com au/collections/items/403976/set-of-glass-slides-kromskop-viewer-set-kromogram-vase-of-flowers-about-1895 image 341462; large single color composite http //www spiracollection com/spira/home nsf/4c2c57d7586208c685256b1a006e32b3/3c770f04feba459285256b22006ce5c0 OpenDocument Original images Frederic Eugene Ives 1856-1937 ; small color composite and arrangement of component images are by uploader any newly created rights herewith released into the public domain PD-US PD-old-70 Uploaded with UploadWizard Color photographs from the 19th century Frederic Eugene Ives Porcelain vases Flowers on black background Additive colors |