Detroit Photographic Co. William Henry Jackson Photochrom Album
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2019-006
Scope and Content
Album of 95 photochroms in gilt leather album, 11-1/2 x 14-3/4 inches. The photochroms are printed by Detroit Photographic Co. from glass plate collodion negatives by William Henry Jackson. Images are mounted on the fronts and backs of 52 pages in corner slits; 94 are 9x6-3/4inches, one is 6-1/2x4-3/4inches. Four pages are blank, having photo corners but no prints. Individual prints are copyright stamped between 1898 – 1902, and each has a title and an ID number.
Depicted subjects include: Indians of the Southwest (Acoma, Apache, Hopi, Isleta, Papago, Pueblo, Utes, Zuni); Cities and views of California (Catalina Island, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, and cactus garden, cattle ranching, Chinatown, date palms, Hotel del Coronado, La Jolla Caves, Ramona’s Home, Sweetwater Dam Yosemite); California Missions (Carmel, Dolores, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Gabriel, San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano including Charles Lummis, San Luis Rey, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Inez); Colorado cities and scenes (Antlers Hotel, cattle roundup on Cimarron River, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Grand River Canyon, Pike’s Peak, railroad views, St. Peter’s Dome, Ute Pass); and the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Depicted subjects include: Indians of the Southwest (Acoma, Apache, Hopi, Isleta, Papago, Pueblo, Utes, Zuni); Cities and views of California (Catalina Island, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Redlands, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, and cactus garden, cattle ranching, Chinatown, date palms, Hotel del Coronado, La Jolla Caves, Ramona’s Home, Sweetwater Dam Yosemite); California Missions (Carmel, Dolores, Los Angeles, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Gabriel, San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano including Charles Lummis, San Luis Rey, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Santa Inez); Colorado cities and scenes (Antlers Hotel, cattle roundup on Cimarron River, Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Grand River Canyon, Pike’s Peak, railroad views, St. Peter’s Dome, Ute Pass); and the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Dates
- 1898-1902
- Majority of material found in 1880s-1905
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
History
The Detroit Photographic Company was launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s by Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingstone, Jr., and photographer and photo-publisher Edwin H. Husher. They obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss "Photochrom" process for converting black-and-white photographs into color images and printing them by photolithography. Photochrom was the first successfully commercial color photography, enabling the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market.
Late in 1897, Livingstone persuaded the accomplished American landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), to join the firm. This added the thousands of negatives of western and other subjects produced by Jackson to the Detroit Photographic Company's inventory. Jackson's collection included city and town views, images of prominent buildings, scenes along railroad lines, views of hotels and resorts, as well as scenic views and natural wonders.
William Henry Jackson became the plant manager in 1903, leaving him with less time to travel and take photographs. The firm was known as the Detroit Photographic Co. until 1905 when it became the Detroit Publishing Company. With the declining sale of photographs and postcards during World War I, and the introduction of new and cheaper printing methods used by competing firms, the Detroit Publishing Company went into receivership in 1924. They liquidated their assets in 1932.
In 1939 Jackson gave the Detroit Publishing Company negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.
Source: LOC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog:Detroit Publishing Company, accessed 6/14/2019.
Late in 1897, Livingstone persuaded the accomplished American landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), to join the firm. This added the thousands of negatives of western and other subjects produced by Jackson to the Detroit Photographic Company's inventory. Jackson's collection included city and town views, images of prominent buildings, scenes along railroad lines, views of hotels and resorts, as well as scenic views and natural wonders.
William Henry Jackson became the plant manager in 1903, leaving him with less time to travel and take photographs. The firm was known as the Detroit Photographic Co. until 1905 when it became the Detroit Publishing Company. With the declining sale of photographs and postcards during World War I, and the introduction of new and cheaper printing methods used by competing firms, the Detroit Publishing Company went into receivership in 1924. They liquidated their assets in 1932.
In 1939 Jackson gave the Detroit Publishing Company negatives and prints to the Edison Institute (now known as the Henry Ford Museum) in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.
Source: LOC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog:Detroit Publishing Company, accessed 6/14/2019.
Extent
95 plus items (1 box) : Album with 95 photochrom prints
Abstract
Gilt leather album of 52 pages with 95 photochrom prints of William Henry Jackson photographic negatives depicting Native Americans from the Southwest, and scenes of California, Colorado and the Grand Canyon, with captions and copyright dates.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved in Big Box location by Pictorial Number.
General
Box shelved in Big Box location.
List of photo captions and copyright dates
| Detroit Photo # | Caption | Copyright date |
|---|---|---|
| 53406 | Utes, Ignacio, High Chief | 1899 |
| 53407 | Buckskin Charlie , Subchief of the Utes | 1899 |
| 53427 | Moki Herdsman | 1899 |
| 53409 | Utes, Jose Romero and Family | 1899 |
| 53410 | Utes, A Group of Children | 1899 |
| 53411 | Utes Southern, Pee Viggi and Squaw | 1899 |
| 53412 | Apache Chief James A. Garfield | 1899 |
| 53413 | Apache Chiefs Garfield, Pouche Te Foya and Sanches | 1899 |
| 53414 | Pueblo Indians Jose, Jesus and Wife | 1899 |
| 53428 | Oraibi, Arizona, Thanksgiving Dance | 1899 |
| 53415 | Moki, Basket Weaver | 1902 |
| 53426 | The Cigarette Smoker, Moki Pueblo, Arizona | 1899 |
| 53876 | Old Church at Pueblo of Acoma, N.M. | 1902 |
| 53063 | La Jolla Caves near San Diego | 1899 |
| 53157 | Echo Cliffs, Grand River Canyon, Colorado | 1900 |
| 53813 | Antelope Priests Chanting at Kisi, Moki, Snake Dance | 1902 |
| 53814 | Taqui, A Moki Snake Priest | 1902 |
| 53879 | Papago Indians | 1902 |
| 53816 | A Woman of Isleta Pueblo | 1902 |
| 53299 | New Mexico, The Rain Dance, Zuni Pueblo | 1899 |
| 53818 | The Moki Snake Dance | 1902 |
| 53489 | Pedro, A Ute Brave | 1900 |
| 53035 | Mission San Diego | 1899 |
| 53445 | Mesa Encant(ana?) from Pueblo of Acoma, N.M. | 1899 |
| 53145 | St. Peter's Dome, Colorado | 1901 |
| 53124 | Colorado, Round Up on the Cimarron | 1898 |
| 53150 | The Summit of Pike's Peak | 1901 |
| 53110 | Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods | 1901 |
| 53111 | The Gateway, Garden of the Gods | 1898 |
| 53113 | Sunrise from Pike's Peak | 1899 |
| 53412 | The Antlers, Colorado Springs | 1901 |
| 53148 | Rainbow Falls in Ute Pass, Colorado | 1901 |
| 53096 | Ramona's Home, Cumulos, California | 1900 |
| 53017 | A Patient Herd | 1900 |
| 53036 | A Peaceful Glen in Southern California | 1898 |
| 53040 | Marengo Avenue, Pasadena, California | 1898 |
| 53041 | Old Trail to Mt. Wilson, Pasadena | 1898 |
| 53042 | Lucky Baldwin's Ranch, Pasadena | 1898 |
| 53043 | A Pasadena Rose Garden | 1898 |
| 53059 | Mt. Lowe Cable Incline | 1899 |
| 53045 | Gold of Ophir Roses, Carmelita, Pasadena | 1898 |
| 53049 | Snow and Palms at Pasadena, California | 1898 |
| 53055 | Almond Trees in Blossom | 1899 |
| 53054 | California Magnolia Avenue, West Riverside | 1899 |
| 53053 | California Magnolia Avenue, East Riverside | 1899 |
| 53056 | Orange Grove at Riverside | 1899 |
| 53057 | Orange Packing at Redlands | 1899 |
| 53058 | Panorama of Redlands from Smiley's Heights | 1899 |
| 53061 | Figueroa Street, Los Angeles | 1899 |
| 53060 | View from Echo Mountain House, Mt. Lowe | 1899 |
| ??088 | Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena | 1900 |
| 53066 | Children of Chinatown, Los Angeles, Cal. | 1899 |
| 53090 | Riverside, California | 1900 |
| 53091 | View of Figueroa Street, Los Angeles | 1901 |
| 53092 | View on Palm Avenue, Riverside | 1901 |
| 53062 | Hollenbeck Home, Los Angeles | 1899 |
| 53097 | Date Palms of California | 1901 |
| 53904 | A Cactus Garden in California | 1902 |
| 53079 | Sweetwater Dam, San Diego, California | 1900 |
| 53077 | Farnsworth's Loop, Santa Catalina Island | 1899 |
| 53265 | Arizona Grand Canyon of Arizona | 1898 |
| 53073 | Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California | 1899 |
| 53021 | Carmel Mission, near Monterey, California | 1902 |
| 53578 | Grand Canyon in Arizona from Rowe's Point | 1900 |
| 53050 | Hotel del Coronado, California | 1899 |
| 53051 | Southview, Hotel del Coronado, California | 1899 |
| 53052 | The Court, Hotel del Coronado, California | 1899 |
| 53900 | The Cliff House, San Francisco [nightview] | 1901 |
| 53013 | El Capitan, Yosemite Valley | 1898 |
| 53008 | Yosemite Valley, General view | 1898 |
| 53083 | Market Street, San Francisco | 1900 |
| 53084 | Union Square, San Francisco | 1900 |
| 53067 | The Cliff House, San Francisco, California | 1899 |
| 53078 | San Francisco Bay from the Summit of Mt. Tamalpais | 1900 |
| 53080 | Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco | 1900 |
| 53071 | Chinese Pharmacy, Los Angeles, California | 1899 |
| 53070 | Brother Odoricus, Mission Santa Barbara, California | 1899 |
| 53065 | The Old Mission Church of Los Angeles | 1899 |
| 54064 | Grand Canyon of Arizona from Bright Angel Hotel | 1902 |
| 53022 | Mission San Juan Bautista | 1898 |
| 53023 | Mission San Antonio | 1898 |
| 53025 | Mission San Miguel | 1898 |
| 53024 | Mission San Antonio, General view | 1898 |
| 53026 | Mission Santa Inez | 1898 |
| 53027 | Mission Santa Barbara | 1898 |
| 53028 | Mission Santa Barbara. In the Garden | 1898 |
| 53029 | Mission San Francisco | 1898 |
| 53030 | Mission San Gabriel, California | 1899 |
| 53031 | The Corridors, Mission San Juan Capistrano | 1899 |
| 53032 | Interior of Corridors, Mission San Juan Capistrano | 1901 |
| 53033 | Mission San Luis Rey | 1898 |
| 53020 | Mission Dolores, San Francisco | 1898 |
| 53035 | Mission San Diego | 1898 |
| 53068 | The Garden, Mission Santa Barbara, California | 1899 |
| 51314 | Old Caretaker at Mission San Juan Capistrano [Charles Lummis and Daughter Turbese] | none |
Processing Information
Collection was acquired and processed in 2019.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Detroit Photographic Co. William Henry Jackson Photochrom Album, 1898-1902
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451