Farben Photographische Gesellschaft (The Color Photographic Society) Stuttgart, Germany, was founded by the photographer Hans Hildenbrand, an early pioneer of the auto-chrome process. Though he began using auto-chrome in 1909, he did not begin producing color stereo-views and tricolor lithographic postcards until 1911. The society published view-cards, greetings, and artist signed cards but is best known for the many scenes that Hildenbrand shot during the First World War. Hildenbrand continued to publish postcards afterwards, and also provided autochrome photos for the National Geographic Society. The firm’s original photographs were destroyed in the Allied bombing of Stuttgart in 1944.