Photochroms of Sites in the United States and Mexico

Collection of photochroms of sites in the United States and Mexico published by the Detroit Photographic Company, 1893-1903. The collection includes significant visual documentation of locations in several states including California, Colorado, New York, and Pennsylvania as well as Washington, D.C., and Mexico, in addition to an image or two for the states of Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The collection includes at least twenty-two images from photographs by William Henry Jackson as well as examples by Edward H. Hart and the Byron Company.

Sites documented in California include overviews of Spanish missions consisting of San Antonio de Pádua, Mission San Miguel Arcangel, and Santa Inés Mission, in addition to views of Ellwood Canyon in Santa Barbara County, Mirror Lake and Mount Watkins at Yosemite National Park, and Santa Catalina Island.

Sites documented in Colorado include discrete images of the weather station operated by United States Army Signal Corps at the summit of Pikes Peak and the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway in El Paso County as well as a view of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad beside the Arkansas River in the chasm of the Royal Gorge. Views of Colorado landscapes include Mount of the Holy Cross, Mount Sneffels, and Twin Lakes, in addition to a mine shaft near Buena Vista.

Sites documented in New York include several images at New York City comprising views of the Bowling Green, General Grant National Memorial, and Saint Paul Building as well as a nut vendor on Grand Street. Other locations in New York state include discrete views of the Niagara River and Upper Saint Regis Lake.

Sites documented in Pennsylvania include several images at Philadelphia encompassing Cliveden, Founder's Hall at Girard College, Strawberry Mansion, and the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard at League Island. There is also a view of the Kittatinny House at the Delaware Water Gap.

Sites documented in Washington, D.C., include views of the United States Capitol and Washington Monument as well as exterior and interior views of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building.

Sites documented in Mexico include discrete images at Mexico City consisting of the Catedral de México and a cypress tree, known as the tree of Noche Triste. There are also views of the municipalities of Aguascalientes and Orizaba as well as of the Popocatépetl stratovolcano.

Sites documented in states east of the Mississippi River in the United States include a view of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology building at Boston, Massachusetts; a vista from near the observation tower at High Rock in the South Mountain State Park at Cascade, Maryland; views at Michigan include the Water Works Park Tower at Detroit and the John Jacob Astor House at Mackinac Island; a Mississippi image documents the home of Jefferson Davis at the Beauvoir estate near Biloxi; views at New Jersey include Indian Lake, formerly known as Lake Lenape, a reservoir in Denville Township and an overview of the Delaware Water Gap of the Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Sites documented in states west of the Mississippi River in the United States include two discrete portraits of a Hopi man during a corn harvest at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona; two distinct views of the east end of the Grand Court at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, in June-November 1898, a view of a Taos man and woman at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico; a harvesting scene near Brookings, South Dakota; a view of Castle Gate in Price Canyon in Utah, which shows Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, and vistas of Wyoming that include Tollgate Rock and Palisades on the Green River as well as the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park.

Letterpress gold image number, title, and often a copyright statement on lower edge of the print recto on most prints.