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- B&W image of the northeast corner of Woodward and Maple. Shops with awnings. The National Hotel is on the left. Three people stand in the street. Dark horse and buggy, white horse and buggy wait in the street. Utility poles and wires can be seen. Real photo postcard, stamped Azo 4, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. (circa 1907). Photographer was Louis James Pesha, a Canadian who owned Pesha Postcard Company in Marine City, Michigan. He was known for his photographs of the Great Lakes region. Reference: Buel, G. & Buel, S. (2012) Marine City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Postcard with B/W image of one story train station with arched window with letters spelling Birmingham on roof. View is toward the northwest with the Grand Trunk Railroad tracks in the right foreground. A man stands in front of the station, looking toward the photographer. Children near doorway. Telephone poles along tracks. Southbound tracks empty, northbound tracks have train with boxcars. Published by the Leiter Post Card Co., Lorain, Ohio (circa 1920)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Color-tinted postcard image of a wood framed mill with stone foundation and stone mill race along Maple Road just west of Southfield Road, looking west. A bridge crosses the Rouge River, and a pasture and fence are present on the south side of Maple Road, which is unpaved. Pub. The Backenstose Book Store in Pontiac. Printed in Germany by Hugh C. Leighton Co. (circa 1906)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Postcard with B/W image of cobblestone church with shingle roof and gables. View is southeast from intersection of Maple and Chester. (A modern brick addition and new façade was built to the original building as the current St. James Episcopal Church.) Pub Ess an Ess Photo Co, Inc. 11 E. 17th St., New York, N.Y. (circa 1918)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Postcard with B/W image of unpaved streets with carriages and horses, pedestrians and shade trees. The view is looking west from [Old] Woodward Avenue along Maple Street [Road]. The post office is in the left foreground, retail businesses in the background, and the spire of the [old Methodist] Church in the right background distance. Pub by Backenstose Book Store in Pontiac. (circa 1910)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- B&W image of two-story, brick and stone civic building, in Tudor style with steep, slate roof and large windows with dominate central-gabled entrance. View is looking southwest from the corner of Bates Street toward Martin Street. Mature trees, sidewalks, flagpole with flag. Woman on sidewalk. (circa 1927)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- B&W image of steep-roofed, gabled entrance of Tudor-style building, with sidewalk and light posts. Main doors face south to Martin Street. Real photo postcard, printed on Kodak Paper. Published by L.L. Cook Co., Milwaukee. (circa 1950)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Postcard with line drawing in brown tint of Tudor style building with steeply roofed gabled entrance on beige cardstock. View is of south facade with main doors facing Martin Street. Trees and shrubs surround the building. (circa 1927)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- B/W postcard image of the Methodist Episcopal Church and adjacent residence/parsonage at Maple Road and Henrietta Street in Birmingham. Blank panel on front for message. Printed by J.H. Cave of Detroit. (circa 1907)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum
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- Color-tinted postcard image with a fountain in the foreground at the southeast corner of Woodward and Maple in "library park." Grass and shade trees and sidewalk near the fountain, and a brick building in the background across the intersection (Levinson's Department Store). Fountain statue depicts boy holding umbrella and girl peeking over his shoulder. Fountain built in 1891 (Chicago) and installed to commemorate the city's first water pipe. Child on bicycle near fountain. Published by Curt Teich /Sexichrome (six color) No. 34788. (circa 1914)
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Birmingham Museum and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Birmingham Museum