Hohenzollern, Germany, ca. 1895.
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Detroit Publishing Co. Sale Catalogs | Books That Feature Photochroms | Books That Describe Photochroms
Detroit Publishing Company Sale Catalogs that List Photochrom Prints
Detroit Photographic Co. Catalogue F. Scenic, Architectural and Marine Views, Published in Aäc, Silver, Platinum, and Special Hand Colored Prints. Detroit: Detroit Photographic Co., 1899. LC Call Number: TR199 .D47
Part I includes the views available as Aäc photographs (photochroms) on pages 1-135 with an index in the preface. Part II lists views available as plain (silver) and hand-colored versions, often of the same or similar subjects. This catalog includes views from all over the world and from a number of photographers.
Detroit Photographic Co. Catalogue J - Part I. Aäc Photographs of Scenery and Architecture. Detroit: Detroit Photographic Co., 1901. 192 p. LC Call Number: TR199 .D48
A revision of Catalogue F. Part I contains only Aäc photographs, both United States and foreign views.
Detroit Publishing Company. Catalogue J - Foreign Section. Aäc Photographs of Scenery and Architecture. Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co., 1905. P. LC Call Number: TR199.D48
An update to Catalogue F that focuses on views outside of the United States that were probably issued by the Photoglob Zürich.
Books That Feature Photochrom Prints
Arqué, Sabine, et. al. Voyage en couleur, photochromie, 1876-1914. [Paris] : Paris bibliothèques; Eyrolles, c2009. LC Call Number: TR790 .V69 2009 (P&P Ref)
Hughes, Jim. The Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America. London and New York: Tauris Parke Books, 1994. LC Call Number: E168.H894 1994
Lavish color illustrations of Detroit Publishing Company photochrom prints. The process is described on pages 8-9.
Southall, Thomas W. "In the Colors of Nature: Detroit Publishing Company Photochroms." In Intersections: Lithography, Photography, and the Traditions of Printmaking,edited by Kathleen Stewart Howe, 67-75. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. LC Call number: NE2250.T35, vol. 17.
Walter, Marc, and Sabine Arqué. The World in 1900: A Colour Portrait. Translated by Philip Watson. London: Thames and Hudson, 2007. Originally published as Portrait d’un monde en couleurs (Paris: Editions Solar, 2006). LC Call number: G138.5 .W35513 2007.
Books That Describe Photochrom Prints
Coe, Brian, and Mark Haworth-Booth. A Guide to Early Photographic Processes. [London]: Victoria & Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1983. LC Call Number: TR350.C64 1983
Disteli, Martin. Romantische Tierbilder zu Fabeln und Versen von A.E. Fröhlich, J.W. Goethe, A. Hartmann ... [et al]. Zürich: Amstutz & Herdeg, 1940. LC Call Number: NC1195.D5 W3
Contains 8 prints made by photochrom offset.
Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. LC Call Number: TR140.J27 H36 1988
Joseph, Steven F. “Photoglob Zurich/Orell Füssli & Co.”In Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, 1078-1079. New York: Routledge Press, 2008. LC Call Number: TR9.H25 2007
Nadeau, Luis. “Photochrom Process.” In Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, 1074-1075. New York: Routledge Press, 2008. LC Call Number: TR9.H25 2007
Sassi, Dino. Helvetia: Souvenir. Zürich, Switzerland: Photoglob, 2002. LC Call Number: DQ26 .S27 1998.
