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But since you are only using it for educational use to attempt to understand what is happening here, I don't think you're in any trouble with displaying the image.

It is lovely, though I don't think there are separate effects applied. They all havean actual soft, pastel, overall look. The colors pop because all the other elements are so pale by comparison. However, given photography techniques available then and now, they may have burned the colors of the dresses to make them "pop." That is a tool we still have in PS today.

I think Larry is right that it has been subsequently enhanced, just like movies can be done digitally today, restoring them to incredible depth, color, and sound.

You could nowadays do this in photoshop by selecting the colors you want to enhance and adding vibrancy and/or saturation to those elements.

However, our expert in these types of things is Tom Mann,and I hope he will come by and offer his opinion. I wonder if a channels adjustment could also help increase the vibrancy of the depper colors while allowing the pale colors to remain as is. Just a thought. Maybe even a curves adjustment, but now we are out of my league at restorations.