Detroit Photographic Company's Railcar and Staff, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1904

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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

Date Made

circa 1904

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

P.DPC.032073

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Toning (Photography)

Color

Brown

Dimensions

Height: 7.188 in
Width: 9.25 in

Detroit Photographic Company's Railcar and Staff, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1904