I've archived this LoRA for a while so I could host it over on TensorArt. You can try it out for free here or download it from my Ko-Fi page.

I thought it would be fun to be able to use the technology of the future to generate images that appeared to be taken over a century ago, so I made this LoRA.

Version 2.0 should work fine with all sorts of prompts, but consider the desired effect of the LoRA before adding stuff like color words, "perfect details," etc. Here's a link to an article I wrote about Vintage and Antique Photography Prompting, and a LoRA test.

About Real Photo Postcards (RPPCs, for short)

In 1903, Kodak rolled out a new camera: the No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak. Produced until 1915, the 3A let customers make a postcard from any photo they took using, a service called "real photo postcards."

Author Lucy Sante writes that these vernacular postcards were very much like the folk music being made in the same places at the same time — they captured the candid, unvarnished experience of daily life. They also represented a crucial stage in the evolution of photography: a link between the formal style of the Civil War photographers like Matthew Brady, and the vision of midcentury documentarians like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange.