这些被重新发现的彩色照片和彩色明信片来自Marc Walter的私人收藏，是底特律照相公司（Detroit Photographic Company）在1888年至1924年之间制作的。它们是展现美国的**批彩色照片，采用了比天然彩色相片早近20年的照相平版印刷工艺。忽然间，这片大陆的色彩展现在所有人面前。

收录的照片是一场穿越时间、地点和人物的航行，充满了发现和冒险的感觉。它们带我们穿越北美广阔而多样的景观，在那里我们遇到了许多社区，最重要的是，它们将我们带回了一百多年前的美国。在包括大插页在内的600多个页面上，这张一览无余的全景图将我们从美洲印第安人的定居点到纽约的唐人街，从最后一批牛仔到康尼岛的鼎盛时期。如今，这些稀有而又引人注目的图像和120年前一样光彩夺目。过去，它们将美国展现在美国人眼前，现在又将美国的过去展现在我们眼前。

These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924. Using a photolithographic process that predated the autochrome by nearly 20 years, they offered people the very first color photographs of the United States. Suddenly, the continent’s colors were available for all to see. From the rich ochres and browns of the Grand Canyon to the dazzle of Atlantic City, these places were now a visual delight not only for eyewitnesses but for Americans far and wide.

Imbued with a sense of discovery and adventure, the pictures gathered here are a voyage through peoples, places, and time. They take us through North America’s vast and varied landscape, where we encounter its many communities, and above all transport us back to the United States of over a century ago. Across more than 600 pages including fold-

out spreads, this sweeping panorama takes us from Native American settlements to New York’s Chinatown, from some of the last cowboys to Coney Island’s heyday. As luminous now as they were some 120 years ago, these rare and remarkable images that brought America to Americans now bring America’s past to our present.