Detroit Photographic Co Prints 1898
Ports & American & German Ships

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U.S.S. Massachusetts now in Fall River Battleship Cove, MA
DPS53229
$125
Sale Price: $5
9
U.S.S. Columbia scrapped in the early 1960's
DPS53270 $125
Sale Price: $5
9
U.S.S. Iowa and old monitors
at League Island Navy Yard now in port of LA
DPS53733
SOLD
Harbor and Muelle Luz, Havana Cuba
DPS54113 $125
Sale Price: $5
9
Lubeck
DPS1877 $125
Sale Price: $5
9
Rotterdam
DPS6149 $115
Sale Price: $55
Hamburg
DPS1862 $115
Sale Price: $55
Rotterdam. Le Pont de la Meuse et le Pont Royal
DPS6150 $115
Sale Price: $55
Hamburg. Elbe.
DPS1863 $125
Sale Price: $5
9
Norddeustschen Lloyd. Reichspostdampfer.
"Kaiserin Maria Theresia" bei Ankunft des Kaisers Beflaggt vor der Wartehalle.
DPS17206 $115
Sale Price: $55
Reichspostdampfer des Norddeustschen Lloyd.
"Konig Albert" vor Genua
DPS17193 $115
Sale Price: $55
Alger. Le Vapeur Normannia
DPS6221 $115
Sale Price: $55
Kiel. Columbia, das Schnellste Schiff der Welt
DPS1942 $115
Sale Price: $55
U.S.S. Columbia
DPS1942A $125
Sale Price: $5
9
Reichspostdampfer des Nordd. Lloyd.
"Grosser Kurfurst" bei der Abfahrt von Bremerhaven.
DPS17212 $115
Sale Price: $55
Reichspostdampfer des Norddeustschen Lloyd.
"Konig Albert" auf offener see.
DPS17194 $115
Sale Price: $55
Norddeustscher Lloyd. Reichspostdampfer.
"Kaiserin Maria Theresa". Deckpromenade.
DPS17207 $115
Sale Price: $55
Ore Docks, Escanaba, Michigan
DPS58491 $115
Sale Price: $55
Reichspostdampfer des Norddeustschen Lloyd. "Kronprinz Wilhelm". Speisesaal I. CL.
DPS17220 $115
Sale Price: $55
Reichspostdampfer des Nordd. Lloyd "Grosser Kurfurst" Rauchcabine I. Kl.
DPS17217 $115
Sale Price: $55
Reichspostdampfer des Norddeustschen Lloyd. "Kronprinz Wilhelm". Gesellschaftszimmer.
DPS17221 $115
Sale Price: $55
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Ports & American & German Ships from Detroit Photographic Co, 1898

We are very pleased to offer a wide variety of photochroms from the turn of the 19th century that were printed by the Detroit Photographic Company. These are fine examples of the art of photographic printing reflecting the diversity of natural history and human endeavor that is also revealed in photogravures from Ferdinand Ongania’s Views of Venice (1891); Verneuil’s Encyclopedia de la Plante (ca 1900); Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928-29); and Baril’s tritone photographic prints in Botanica (2000).

Photochroms are produced by a color photo-lithographic process in which a black and white photographic negative is applied to multiple lithograph stones and colors are added, one stone at a time. The Detroit Photographic Company brought the people of the United States the very first color photographs and later extended their business into printed, colored post cards which were very popular at the time and which, to this day, are highly sought after by collectors of ephemera.

The Detroit Photographic Company, known as the Detroit Publishing Company beginning in 1905 until it liquidated its assets in 1932, brought the photochrom process from Switzerland in 1897. Late in 1897, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), noted American photographer joined the company as a partner, adding thousands of negatives of USA landmarks produced by Jackson to the company’s inventory. Jackson had been a photographer with the U.S. Geological Survey in the 1870s, which took him all over the west and cemented his reputation as one of the foremost landscape photographers of his time. During the 1880s Jackson continued to travel extensively, photographing hotels, city views, railroad lines, important buildings, and more. Jackson was taken with the photochrom process because it captured color so naturalistically, and he would devote himself to it in his last years of active photography. (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst, MA)

In 1939 Jackson gave the Detroit Publishing Company negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi as well as others to the United States Library of Congress later that year.

The photochroms we are offering are taken by a large format camera and therefore show extraordinary detail. They are the largest of the photochrom prints published, with the exception of the panoramic views the Detroit Photographic Company produced, and each is approximately 7 x 9 inches. By contrast, their postcards are 3 x 5 inches. Most have the number of the print and subject matter embossed just above the lower edge. While many have a copyright date, these dates do not necessarily correspond to the date the photograph was taken, often years earlier. There is nothing written on the verso and the condition overall is excellent with very few minor creases in a small number of the prints.


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