Once Upon a Time in America : Here are the first colors Photographs of America

What you see here are the first color photographs of the New World. Taken between 1888 and 1924 by The Detroit Photographic Company , photochromic these images were made ​​using a photolithography process. Below is an excerpt of 600 photos that contain the book " An American Odyssey  "by Marc Walter and Sabine Arched, published by Taschen.

Mount Lowe Railway - on the circular bridge - California

The Big Apple - Mulberry Street - main thoroughfare in Manhattan

Sunset from the Battery - New York

"An American Odyssey" by Marc Walter and Sabine Arched

Arch Rock - Mackinac Island - Michigan

Grand Canyon view from O Neill Point - Arizona

Cape Horn - Columbia River

Apache Chief James A Garfield

Chinese pharmacy - Chinatown - San Francisco

Mariposa Grove - Three Graces - Yosemite National Park - California

Portland Head Light - Maine

A washing Monday - New York

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