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In 1925 Hoppé received a commission from German publisher Ernst Wasmuth to make a photographically illustrated book of America. From late 1925 and for most of 1926 Hoppé traversed the continent several times making photographs for his book Romantic America to be published as part of the Orbis Terrarum series. Hoppé's view of America was geographically expansive from the Brooklyn Bridge to the pueblos of New Mexico, from Hollywood back lots to Seattle lumber mills, and from the First African Baptist Church in Savannah to the wheat farms of Utah. Wasmuth’s commission required that Hoppé photograph scenes primarily without people in them so that the pictures would remain current in their appearance even as fashion changed. Presumably Wasmuth wanted the book to have a long shelf life. Not one to pass up an opportunity, while on his travels Hoppé did photograph many different "types" of Americans making an early and important studies that reveal a multi-cultural society attempting to connect across racial, cultural and economic differences.

New York City, 1925	Philadelphia, 1926	New York City, 1921	New York City, 19216
New York, 1921	New York City, 1921	Detroit, 1926	Detroit, 1926
Key West, Florida, 1926	Pittsburgh, 1926	Chinatown, SF, 1926	Chicago, 1926
Virginia, 1926	Atlanta, 1926	Georgia, 1926	Portland, Oregon, 1926
New York, 1926	New Mexico, 1926	Yosemite, 1926	Utah, 1926

Editions:
German edition: Das Romantische Amerika, 1927 (pictured above)
English edition: Romantic America: Picturesque United States, 1926