Publisher · US
Detroit Publishing Company
Detroit, Michigan · 1898-1932
Also traded as Detroit Photographic Co. and Detroit Photochrom Co.; cards often carry a painter's palette mark
Held rights to the Photochrom and Photostint processes
Numbers map to first-printing years; reprints continued for years on original numbers; late cards carry Roman-numeral year marks
Dating this publisher’s cards
US. Numbers map to the year of first printing, but reprints continued for years on the original number, so a number sets the earliest possible date; late cards add a Roman-numeral year. Use the decoder.
Open the Detroit Publishing decoder
Sources: Newberry Library DPC dating guide (from Stechschulte 1994; Lowe & Papell 1975). See methodology.