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Detroit, MI: Detroit Photographic Co., 1901 circa. Fine. 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 17 x 22 cm; professionally matted, glazed and framed in brown wood This is a colored image made by the photochrom process The Photochrom process was proprietary process used from the 1890s to the 1910s by The Photoglob Company at Zurich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Co. "The richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches." - LC Photochrom Collection. See the Library of Congress example: Lot 13923, no. 202; also control number 2008678210. The Detroit Co. had the exclusive franchise to the American market to use the Swiss process, and used it for prints and postcards. William Henry Jackson became a partner in the business in 1897, bringing with him thousands of his negatives of the American West, and otherwise. Beinecke LIbrary object ID 2005910.