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Félix Bonfils

Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville (Two Women)

c. 1880s
Photochrom

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In the early 1880s, Félix Bonfils was among the first photographers to use the Photocrom process, which produced color images from a single black-and-white negative.

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