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The Henry Ford has a collection
of about 5,000 Detroit Publishing Company color Photochrom
prints. The photolithographs were made before the advent
of practical color print photography and the verisimilitude
of the coloration appears at first glance to be actual
color photographs. However, the photographs were initially
shot in black and white and a retoucher added color to
the prints. The hand-colored prints were then transferred
to lithographic printing plates by using color separation
negatives. Incorporated in 1895 as the Photochrom Company
in Detroit, Michigan, it was known until 1905 as the Detroit
Photographic Company, and then did business as the Detroit
Publishing Company through 1924. The company made the
color Photochrom prints beginning in 1898. The subjects
date from the 1880s through the 1910s, reflecting the
Detroit company's wide ranging original photographic stock
of landscapes and city scenes across North America and
around the world. William Henry Jackson worked for this
company from 1897 to 1924, and many of the Photochrom
prints show his images of the Rocky Mountains and Native
Americans that he photographed in the 1880s and 1890s.
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