April 17, 2024
RARE Willam Henry Jackson Photochrom Newspaper Row NY!!
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From a World Class collection of Original Antique Photochroms comes this famous photo of New York City's Newspaper Row taken by the great William Henry Jackson Detroit Photographic Company Year 1900. In this photo are left to right, City Hall, New York World Building, N.Y Tribune, and the New York Times. It is numbered #53572. It has only a crease upper right hand corner. 107 Years old. Ready for matting and framing. This photochrom is valued between $400.00 and $600.00. Own a piece of great American History. After traveling extensively and attempting to make a living by making photographs, William Henry Jackson combined his artistic skill in the fledgling art of photography with his spirit for adventure when he began photographing for the U. S. Geological Survey in 1870. In the United States, one area that Jackson returned to time and time again was Yellowstone. In fact, Jackson's photographs played a large part in influencing Congress to create Yellowstone National Park in 1872. But the camera's inability to capture the astonishing colors of the area frustrated Jackson, who fell back on painting techniques and other manipulations to achieve the desired effects.The development in Switzerland of the Photochrom process for continuous-tone, full-color renditions from of black and white negatives changed all that. The process was
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