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How
to Color Photographs:
Detroit
Publishing Company photographs were initially shot in
black and white. The photographer would take notes
describing the scene and the colors. After he developed
the photograph, the production manager would mark up the
color instructions on a print and a retoucher would color
the print. Color prints were then produced by lithography,
a process of printing from a flat surface on which the
image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area
is ink-repellent. The Detroit Publishing Company
held the exclusive North American rights to Photochrom,
a Swiss-patented method of color lithography.
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Color
proof sheet of postcards of New York City and Coney Island
with color bar and printer’s notation, 1900.
With this proof sheet the company had a record of
the adjustments made to the printing equipment and could
more easily produce additional printing runs for this set
of postcards using the patented Photochrom lithography process.
Larger
version of image (may be more than 50k)
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Accession
ID # 37.102.85
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Height:
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Copyright
© 2003
The Henry Ford Last
Updated:
01/17/2003
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