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Detroit Publishing: The Sequel
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:19am.
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Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910. "Detroit Publishing Company, southeast view." Our second look at the home of the Photochrom-process postcard. View full size.
Postcards
Submitted by Mr. S. on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:19am.
Was Detroit Publishing a competitor or as large a producer of postcards as the Curt Teich co. in Chicago?
[At its peak in the early part of the century, Detroit Publishing was selling around 7 million postcards and prints a year. - Dave]
Ripe for colorization
Submitted by MikeK on Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:53pm.
With all the false-color postcards they turned out, someone should do some retro-justice to this plate. Any takers for creating an over-obvious color job?
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