The journal
What the plates show, and what you need to read them: the cities, the processes, the trades. Dated and sourced, like the prints.
Ottoman Jerusalem, Through Its Gates and Skyline
Ottoman gates, viewpoints and street trades: what the Jerusalem photochroms of 1900 show of a provincial capital spreading beyond its walls.
The Detroit Publishing Company's Swiss Photochrom Licence
The Detroit Publishing Company printed millions of photochroms in America under a Swiss licence, for a process invented at Orell Füssli and sold under the Photoglob name.
What Is a Photochrom Print?
A photochrom is neither a colour photograph nor a hand-tinted postcard — a black-and-white negative, coloured stone by stone in a Zurich workshop.