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- Detroit Photographic Company Retail Outlet, New York City, 1900-1910 - From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company's wide-ranging stock of original photographs documented life and landscapes from across the nation and around the globe. From the tens of thousands of negatives, the company created prints, postcards, lantern slides, panoramas, and other merchandise for sale to educators, businessmen, advertisers, homeowners and travelers.
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company Retail Outlet, New York City, 1900-1910
From 1895 to 1924, the Detroit Publishing Company was one of the major image publishers in the world. The company's wide-ranging stock of original photographs documented life and landscapes from across the nation and around the globe. From the tens of thousands of negatives, the company created prints, postcards, lantern slides, panoramas, and other merchandise for sale to educators, businessmen, advertisers, homeowners and travelers.
- Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899 - 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.
- 1899
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1899
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.
- Dennis Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1908, Photograph Retouching Process in Progress -
- circa 1908
- Collections - Artifact
Dennis Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1908, Photograph Retouching Process in Progress
- Detroit Publishing Company Managers with William Henry Jackson, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Publishing Company Managers with William Henry Jackson, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910
- William Henry Jackson in China during the World's Transportation Commission Tour, 1895 - William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was a prolific photographer, probably the best known of the nineteenth-century western landscape photographers. Jackson worked for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, ran his own studio in Denver, and traveled the world as a photographer for the World's Transportation Commission. In 1897, Jackson joined the Detroit Publishing Company.
- August 1895-September 1895
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William Henry Jackson in China during the World's Transportation Commission Tour, 1895
William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was a prolific photographer, probably the best known of the nineteenth-century western landscape photographers. Jackson worked for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, ran his own studio in Denver, and traveled the world as a photographer for the World's Transportation Commission. In 1897, Jackson joined the Detroit Publishing Company.
- Detroit Photographic Company's Railcar and Staff, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1904 - 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.
- circa 1904
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company's Railcar and Staff, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1904
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.
- Copy of Ambrotype Portrait for Benj. L. Van Nostrand, 1890-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1890-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Copy of Ambrotype Portrait for Benj. L. Van Nostrand, 1890-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- Photographer's Wagon by a Toll House at Saratoga Lake, New York, circa 1870 -
- circa 1870
- Collections - Artifact
Photographer's Wagon by a Toll House at Saratoga Lake, New York, circa 1870
- Interior of a Photography Studio, circa 1900 -
- circa 1900
- Collections - Artifact
Interior of a Photography Studio, circa 1900
- Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1902 - 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.
- 1902
- Collections - Artifact
Detroit Photographic Company Special Railcar on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 1902
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.