Views throughout the United States of prominent buildings, clubs, estates, monuments, and colleges and universities; historical sites, including battlefields and forts; natural landmarks, such as canyons, islands, rock formations, and waterfalls; industry; educational, financial, and government facilities; naval vessels and yachting events; canals and waterfronts; roads, railroads, and other methods of transportation and Also scenes of urban and rural communities and other points of interest in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean area, and a series of mammoth panoramic views mostly of western mountain ranges. There are also portraits of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and portraits employing racist stereotypes of African Americans
Description:
The Detroit Photographic Company began as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s. The founders, Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingston, Jr., and photographer and photopublisher Edwin H. Husher, obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss color photolithography "Photochrom" process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market., In 1897 William Henry Jackson became a partner in the firm, adding thousands of negatives to the inventory, some taken as early as the 1870s. In 1905 the company changed its name to the Detroit Publishing Company. It went into receivership in 1924, and liquidated its assets in 1932., Accompanied by a container list., Letterpress captions, numbers and copyright statement on most prints. Manuscript captions on verso of some prints., and Photographers of individual images are not identified, but many images may be attributed to William Henry Jackson.
Publisher:
Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Mexico, Bahamas, and Canada
Subject (Name):
Husher, Edwin H. and Livingston, William A.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Universities and colleges
Views throughout the United States of prominent buildings, clubs, estates, monuments, and colleges and universities; historical sites, including battlefields and forts; natural landmarks, such as canyons, islands, rock formations, and waterfalls; industry; educational, financial, and government facilities; naval vessels and yachting events; canals and waterfronts; roads, railroads, and other methods of transportation and Also scenes of urban and rural communities and other points of interest in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean area, and a series of mammoth panoramic views mostly of western mountain ranges. There are also portraits of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and portraits employing racist stereotypes of African Americans
Description:
The Detroit Photographic Company began as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s. The founders, Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingston, Jr., and photographer and photopublisher Edwin H. Husher, obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss color photolithography "Photochrom" process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market., In 1897 William Henry Jackson became a partner in the firm, adding thousands of negatives to the inventory, some taken as early as the 1870s. In 1905 the company changed its name to the Detroit Publishing Company. It went into receivership in 1924, and liquidated its assets in 1932., Accompanied by a container list., Letterpress captions, numbers and copyright statement on most prints. Manuscript captions on verso of some prints., and Photographers of individual images are not identified, but many images may be attributed to William Henry Jackson.
Publisher:
Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Mexico, Bahamas, and Canada
Subject (Name):
Husher, Edwin H. and Livingston, William A.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Universities and colleges
Views throughout the United States of prominent buildings, clubs, estates, monuments, and colleges and universities; historical sites, including battlefields and forts; natural landmarks, such as canyons, islands, rock formations, and waterfalls; industry; educational, financial, and government facilities; naval vessels and yachting events; canals and waterfronts; roads, railroads, and other methods of transportation and Also scenes of urban and rural communities and other points of interest in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean area, and a series of mammoth panoramic views mostly of western mountain ranges. There are also portraits of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and portraits employing racist stereotypes of African Americans
Description:
The Detroit Photographic Company began as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s. The founders, Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingston, Jr., and photographer and photopublisher Edwin H. Husher, obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss color photolithography "Photochrom" process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market., In 1897 William Henry Jackson became a partner in the firm, adding thousands of negatives to the inventory, some taken as early as the 1870s. In 1905 the company changed its name to the Detroit Publishing Company. It went into receivership in 1924, and liquidated its assets in 1932., Accompanied by a container list., Letterpress captions, numbers and copyright statement on most prints. Manuscript captions on verso of some prints., and Photographers of individual images are not identified, but many images may be attributed to William Henry Jackson.
Publisher:
Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Mexico, Bahamas, and Canada
Subject (Name):
Husher, Edwin H. and Livingston, William A.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Universities and colleges
Views throughout the United States of prominent buildings, clubs, estates, monuments, and colleges and universities; historical sites, including battlefields and forts; natural landmarks, such as canyons, islands, rock formations, and waterfalls; industry; educational, financial, and government facilities; naval vessels and yachting events; canals and waterfronts; roads, railroads, and other methods of transportation and Also scenes of urban and rural communities and other points of interest in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean area, and a series of mammoth panoramic views mostly of western mountain ranges. There are also portraits of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and portraits employing racist stereotypes of African Americans
Description:
The Detroit Photographic Company began as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s. The founders, Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingston, Jr., and photographer and photopublisher Edwin H. Husher, obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss color photolithography "Photochrom" process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market., In 1897 William Henry Jackson became a partner in the firm, adding thousands of negatives to the inventory, some taken as early as the 1870s. In 1905 the company changed its name to the Detroit Publishing Company. It went into receivership in 1924, and liquidated its assets in 1932., Accompanied by a container list., Letterpress captions, numbers and copyright statement on most prints. Manuscript captions on verso of some prints., and Photographers of individual images are not identified, but many images may be attributed to William Henry Jackson.
Publisher:
Detroit Photographic Co. or Detroit Publishing Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Mexico, Bahamas, and Canada
Subject (Name):
Husher, Edwin H. and Livingston, William A.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Universities and colleges
Photograph album relating to Frank N. Barrett's cross-country trip from New York to California in 1889, titled "From Ocean to Ocean." The album contains newspaper clippings and other emphemera in addition to commercial photographs of scenery and sites in Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, various parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon, and scenery in Yellowstone National Park, New York and California and Views in California include Coronado, San Diego, Point Loma, San Gabriel Valley in Pomona, San Jose Valley, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Del Monte, San Rafael, Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mt. Tamalpais, and Mt. Shasta
Description:
Frank N. Barrett was secretary of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the editor of American Grocer when he travelled from New York to California in order to study that state's "contribution to the world food supply." The newspaper clippings represent the letters he sent back to the American Grocer, published under the heading "From Ocean to Ocean: Notes by the Way" in 1889., Accompanied by two folders, one containing a 26-page typescript with manuscript annotations describing the cross-country trip illustrated in the album, and the other containing clippings and miscellaneous commercial photographs of scenery along the route of the trip., and Album pages are extremely fragile.
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "On the skirmish line." Depicts a scene of battle between about a dozen Native Americans on horseback and a dozen U.S. Army troops on foot
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +211:, Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Written in lower right corner of image: Copyright c. 1900. Hand printed in lower right corner of image: From painting owned by C. M. Butte Hoboken.
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "My bunkie." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Three soldiers on horseback in foreground with one soldier being pulled up from the ground by another
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and Text in lower left: copyrighted 99.
Reproduction of a Charles Schreyvogel oil painting. Depicts a two troopers in a narrow canyon; one on horseback, the other unmounted; pistols drawn, looking back at approaching riders
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +217: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title devised by cataloger., and In lower right corner of print: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
