[ Photographs ] (Detroit Photographic Company) Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Oversize platinum print, 15x 2O inches, with a handwritten title, in pencil, on verso; framed. Circa 1900 E2000-3000 The Detroit Photographic Co. began as a kind of picture

[ Photographs ] (Detroit Photographic Company) Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Oversize platinum print, 15x 2O inches, with a handwritten title, in pencil, on verso; framed. Circa 1900 E2000-3000 The Detroit Photographic Co. began as a kind of picture agency/publishing house. Initially it supplied photographs for use in books and magazines, illustrations on calendars, and for other advertising specialties. Later on photographs such as this one were reproduced as Photochromes a lithographic process, in vivid, naturalistic color.