Collegiate Church and Holland House

Although this looks like a color photograph, it's actually a photochrom image. Most color postcards from the 1890s through the early decades of the 20th century were produced by this process. It's a lithographic print made from a photographic negative. The coloring was applied by hand, one tint at a time, to multiple lithographic stones which were then used to make this print.

{Caption: Marble Collegiate Church and Holland House, New York, by the Detroit Publishing Co., c1901; source: Library of Congress}

Here is the original photograph.

{Caption: Marble Collegiate Church, New York, by the Detroit Publishing Co., c1901; source: Library of Congress}

Some details from the photo.

1. Here is yet another Fifth Avenue Coach. As in the previous web post, it is not the main subject and thus not in close focus. No one's on top, but the coach, horses, and harness are otherwise very similar to the others I've shown.



2. Behind the coach is Holland House, a plush hotel modeled after an aristocratic London mansion for the enjoyment of rich and famous visitors to New York.



3. Once again we're looking to the northwest. Fifth Avenue is busier on this day than on others I've shown. The sun is fairly low in the east and women have neither coats nor scarves. There are leaves on the tree and the atmosphere appears a bit heavy. Perhaps it's a Summer weekday morning.



4. This is a very early model of horseless carriage. There's can't have been many of these on Manhattan streets in 1901.