earlier america
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The United States 1800’s and Early 1900’s
Maine – Trucks waiting to unload potatoes at starch factory
Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Forsyth Street west from City Hall."
Washington, D.C. " The officer and his Henderson #1. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
. September 1938. "Farm wife washing clothes. Lake Dick Project, Arkansas." 35mm negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration
Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Oppenheimer's dress shop."
New York circa 1901. "The Great Coal Mine, Coney Island." From the book Coney Island and Astroland: "The Great Coal Mine was a 1,500-foot-long dark ride that enabled visitors to travel on coal cars through several levels of a dimly lit simulated mine. It opened in 1901 on the north side of Surf Avenue at West Tenth Street
Florida circa 1904. "Beach Street, Daytona." There is a early Coca-Cola sign on Burdine's Pharmacy. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
New York circa 1905. "Main tower, Luna Park, Coney Island."
April 1864. "Brandy Station, Virginia. Gen. Rufus Ingalls on horseback. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war -- winter quarters at Brandy Station." Wet plate glass negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
March 1909. Bridgeport, Connecticut. -- Boys selling papers at the depot. Smallest one has been selling for eight years.“ Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
.Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, circa 1910. "Hotel (New) Mathewson." For many years the pre-eminent lodging in the "City of Hotels."
"Dreamland Park, Coney Island“ (Original Image). 1906 - It's hard to believe it all burned to the ground. This was one heck of a coloring job but I was intrigued to see Dreamland as it might have been. If only we could visit this amazing place.
Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1925. "No. 89 -- Cemetery picture - One last look around topside. National Photo glass negative.
New York circa 1905. "Surf bathing at Coney Island." The latest in revealing swimwear!
May 27, 1913. "Auto polo, Coney Island.“ George Grantham Bain Collection.
April 1906. San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. "Sutter Street up from Grant Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing.
New York circa 1903. "Remember the poor: a Salvation Army
Christmas box."
Chicago circa 1900. "A walk in Lincoln Park."
December 1910. "Shorpy Higginbotham, an oiler on the tipple at Bessie Mine" -- near
Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. Photograph
by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Circa 1904. "City Hall, Syracuse, New York." An electric welcome to
the Salt City. 8x10 inch dry plate glass
negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Laurel, Maryland. July 31, 1922. "Two B&O freights wrecked in head-on
crash at Laurel switch." National Photo Company glass negative
Syracuse, N.Y., circa 1905. "Empire State Express (New York Central Railroad) coming thru Washington Street." Detroit Publishing Company.
"1904. Erie Canal at Salina Street, Syracuse, New York." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, Library of Congress.
Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1910. "Unloading cotton at the levee." Sternwheel packet boat
Washington, D.C., 1922. "J.C.L. Ritter -- Polli Food Products truck." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
Florida circa 1905. "Oliver W., the famous trotting ostrich, Florida Ostrich Farm, Jacksonville." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing
Iowa – 1943 Women working in the railroad yard during WWll
East meets West – Connecting the Railroad
across the U.S. Promontory Utah 1869
New Jersey circa 1900. "Bergen Tunnel, east end." The Detroit
Photographic Special on the tracks. Detroit Publishing Company Photo Train –Minnesota 1905
Photochrom Postcard of Mulberry Street in New York City Ca 1900, by the Detroit Photographic Co.
New York Banana Docks 1905Unloading Bananas New Your 1905
The Detroit Photographic Company was founded in the 1890s by Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingstone, Jr., and photographer and photo-publisher Edwin H. Husher. The company had the exclusive rights to the photochrom process for the American market. Photochrom is a technique which allows the color enhancement of black-and white photography with the means of chromolithography.
The company specialized on postcards of American and European subjects, including cityscapes, reproductions of artwork, natural landmarks and folklore.The company went out of business in 1924
Most of the existing negatives and prints are now housed by the United States Library of Congress.
A large collection of photographic and photomechanical prints are also housed by the Beinecke library at Yale University The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a collection of photochrom images of American landmarks from 1898 to 1908 – The next slide is an example of the Detroit photographic Co. Chromolithography allowed the company to mass-produce photorealistic color motifs long before color photography became economically feasible
