Kijker voor autochrome-dia's c. 1907 - 1930

This anonymous, early 20th-century viewer for Autochrome slides, housed at the Rijksmuseum, is a leather-bound object with a simple design and a gold-colored border around the frame. Autochromes were early color photographs produced using a process of applying colored grains to a glass plate. The viewer would have been used to project these slides, offering an early form of viewing color photographs. It is a reminder of the early development of photography and the evolution of viewing technologies.