William Henry Jackson: Market Street, San Francisco

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Pasted to an album page with another photograph (Palace Hotel interior) verso. This is a Photochrome produced by Detroit Photographic Co. The Photochrome process was invented in the 1880s by a Swiss company was most popular in the 1890s, when true color photography was first developed but was still commercially impractical. The process was able to reproduce color images using lithographic limestone called a "litho stone" and chemical interactions. The Detroit Photographic Company reportedly produced as many as seven million photochrome prints in some years, and ten to thirty thousand different views were offered.<p> Keywords: architecture urban