Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the procedure in 1842, and engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
These vintage photos are cyanotypes that were taken by Carl Curman (1833–1913), a physician and a scientist - as well as a prominent amateur photographer. They decumented everyday life in Stockholm and on the west coast in Lysekil with surroundings, where Carl Curman spent most of his days from between the 1860s and 1900.
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| A man and four women sitting in the lounge of the gentry's house, Lysekil, ca. 1880s |
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| A young woman in the main Curman villa, 'Storstugan', Lysekil, ca. 1890s |
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| Area of falls and sluices in Trollhättan, 1888 |
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| Big bathhouse and Curman's first villa, Lysekil, 1875 |
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| Calla Curman (Carl Curman wife) in Curman's villa at Floragatan 3 in central Stockholm, ca. 1880s |
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| Fishermen and a child from Lysekil, ca. 1860s |
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| Frieze in Curman villa, Stockholm, ca. 1880s |
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| Horse drawn trams, Stockholm in 1900 |
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| Interior from the upper floor in the main Curman villa, Lysekil, ca. 1880s |
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| Men with drinks and cigars at villa Bergshyddan (built for C.F. Lundström-father of Calla Curman), Lysekil, ca. 1890s |
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| People sitting in Lysekil park, ca. 1890s |
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| Portrait of Carolina Curman (mother of Carl Curman) in Lysekil, 1885 |
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| Seaside restaurant in Lysekil, ca. 1880s |
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| Seven men at a Nordic medical congress in Lysekil in 1895 |
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| Sigurd (son of Carl and Calla Curman) and an elderly man at the main Curman villa, 'Storstugan', Lysekil, ca. 1890s |
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| The Railway bridge across the water at Tegelbacken in Stockholm (The Skinnarviken mountains in the background), 1900 |
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| Three women and a child at the steps to one of the Curman villas, Lysekil, ca. 1880s |
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| Three women lying in the grass (the one in the top of the picture is Calla Curman-wife of Carl Curman), Lysekil, ca. 1880s |
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| Trollhättan Falls in 1888 |
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| View in winter over Saltsjön (Salt water sea) from Katarinahissen (the Katarina Elevator), Stockholm, ca. 1890s |
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| View over area of falls and sluices in Trollhättan, 1888 |
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| View towards the Old Town and the Southern part of Stockholm city, 1900 |
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Winter view from Djursholm Garden Suburb north of Stockholm (in the background the villa of the Swedish author
Viktor Rydberg, called Villa Ekeliden), ca. 1890s |
(Photos by Carl Curman, via
Swedish National Heritage Board)
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