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

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.