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Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899

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Artifact Overview

Detroit Photographic Company promoted its thousands of images -- sold in the form of color postcards, prints and photo albums -- with railroad cars converted into mobile galleries. The company's photographs depicted everything from city streets to natural landscapes, and they were distinguished by the special "Photochrom" colorization process that made black-and-white images look like color photographs.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1899

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

37.102.P.04860.2

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in

Inscriptions

Text lower left front corner: 04860 INTERIOR OF DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHIC CO.'S CAR.