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- Description:
- Interior view of the dance floor at the Graystone Ballroom at Woodward Avenue and Canfield in Detroit, Michigan. "The Graystone attracted an older crowd and got the big bands, Monday night at the Gray was known as "colored night," bands such as Cab Calloway's would swing down to Detroit after performing at Idlewild, a black resort in western Michigan, local white band leaders were barred on Monday nights so they would climb the telephone poles outside the ballroom and listen in order to copy the musical arrangements of the black musicians," from Detroit News article.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Exterior view of the Vanity Ballroom at Newport and East Jefferson in Detroit, Michigan. The building was built in 1929 by Charles Agree in the Art Deco style with Aztec features.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1980-02-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Interior view of the dance floor at the Graystone Ballroom at Woodward Avenue and Canfield in Detroit, Michigan. "The Graystone attracted an older crowd and got the big bands, Monday night at the Gray was known as "colored night," bands such as Cab Calloway's would swing down to Detroit after performing at Idlewild, a black resort in western Michigan, local white band leaders were barred on Monday nights so they would climb the telephone poles outside the ballroom and listen in order to copy the musical arrangements of the black musicians," from Detroit News article.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- A large group of men and women dining in a splendid ballroom in the Rowe Hotel at the corner of Monroe and Michigan NE.
- Date Created:
- 1937-10-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Five of the couples that attended the military ball. Four men in uniform, the fifth in a tuxedo but wearing his military medals. Women in evening dress.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photograph of the interior of Big Pavilion, advertised as the largest dance floor East of the Mississippi River. In the photograph there are two men in a dome like room. A orchestra is in the distance.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- Stories of Summer (project)
- Description:
- Interior view of the dance floor at the Graystone Ballroom at Woodward Avenue and Canfield in Detroit, Michigan. "The Graystone attracted an older crowd and got the big bands, Monday night at the Gray was known as "colored night," bands such as Cab Calloway's would swing down to Detroit after performing at Idlewild, a black resort in western Michigan, local white band leaders were barred on Monday nights so they would climb the telephone poles outside the ballroom and listen in order to copy the musical arrangements of the black musicians," from Detroit News article.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Two copies.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Interior view of the dance floor at the Graystone Ballroom at Woodward Avenue and Canfield in Detroit, Michigan. "The Graystone attracted an older crowd and got the big bands, Monday night at the Gray was known as "colored night," bands such as Cab Calloway's would swing down to Detroit after performing at Idlewild, a black resort in western Michigan, local white band leaders were barred on Monday nights so they would climb the telephone poles outside the ballroom and listen in order to copy the musical arrangements of the black musicians," from Detroit News article.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Interior view of the dance floor at the Graystone Ballroom at Woodward Avenue and Canfield in Detroit, Michigan. "The Graystone attracted an older crowd and got the big bands, Monday night at the Gray was known as "colored night," bands such as Cab Calloway's would swing down to Detroit after performing at Idlewild, a black resort in western Michigan, local white band leaders were barred on Monday nights so they would climb the telephone poles outside the ballroom and listen in order to copy the musical arrangements of the black musicians," from Detroit News article.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
