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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an elevated view, facing southeast from the corner of Michigan Avenue and Griswold Street. In view are City Hall, Pontchartrain Hotel and Hammond building. Printed on verso: "City Hall, Pontchartrain Hotel and Hammond Bldg. This handsome group of buildings is situated in the heart of the business section of Detroit and it goes without saying that they are a credit to the already distinguished city." Handwritten message on verso. Postmarked 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall and the Majestic Building at night from Campus Martius. Postmarked 1913.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall and the Majestic Building with a view down Fort Street from Campus Martius. Printed on verso: City Hall and Majestic Building. The business center of Detroit is the Campus Martius, situated at the converging of Lafayette, Monroe, Michigan and Woodward Avenues. It was reserved as a breathing spot in the "Governor and Judges" plan adopted for the city in its early history and has been beautified by a fountain donated by Mrs. Thomas W. Palmer. On it fronts the City Hall, Majestic Building, Detroit and Temple theatres and other prominent factors in the city life. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall from the corner of Fort Street and Woodward Avenue, with several pedestrians in front. Printed on verso: The Detroit City Hall in which are located the administrative offices of the city was erected in 1869. It is a handsome and substantial structure, situated on Woodward Avenue, between Fort Street and Lafayette Avenue, occupying and entire block. The city spent $50,000 remodeling the interior in 1906. To the left is shown Fort Street, one of the leading business thoroughfares and which connects the heart of the city with the immense manufacturing establishments in Delray and other down-river industries. Postmarked 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting City Hall and Hammond Building, with a moonlight tower, pedestrians, and an automobile in the foreground. Printed in Germany F von Bardeleben, New York & Germany Postmarked 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Photograph. Black and white photo of 36 members of the Detroit Rambler Club (bicycle club). The members are standing on the steps of the Detroit City Hall with two bicycles (one single and one tandem) along with their club flag. Some of the club members are wearing sweaters that have the same logo that is shown on the club flag. A typewritten label on the verso notes "#6343, Detroit Rambler Club on steps of City Hall in 1896." A white number is handwritten on each member, but no key to their identities is included.
- Date Issued:
- 1896-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard. Illustration of Cadillac Square. Front reads, "Cadillac Square From County Bldg, Detroit, Mich." City Hall can be seen in the background. Signs that can be seen in the image read, "McGregor Helping Hand Mission," McWilliams Wholesale Gr.., "Peter Smithsons Wholesale [..] Butter, Eggs & Cheese, "Marz Capsule, Manufacturer of Capsules," "Sarsaparilla Vitalizes the Blood," and "[..] Prepared Paint Color in Oil." Card was mailed and postmark reads, "[..] 4 PM, Jun 2, 1910, Mich."
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph of City Hall, as taken from the center of Campus Martius, decorated with American flags and patriotic banners, as well as a sign that reads, "Welcome Admiral and Mrs. Dewey," to greet the visiting Spanish-American War hero George Dewey. An elevated seating box is set up on the sidewalk in front of City Hall. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carts are in the streets. A moonlight tower stands along the right edge of the frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Mounted, sepia-toned photographic print entitled, "Old City Hall, A.D. 1868." Detroit's City Hall which stood at Campus Martius, on Michigan Grand Avenue (now Cadillac Square) is depicted as viewed from Campus Martius facing southeast. Several people stand in front of the building, while several other people sit in the shade on the building's north side. Stalls used for the Central or City Hall Market are visible behind the building. In the background, along Michigan Grand, signs are posted for U.S. Tobacco Works, R.G. Tyler Teas, National Bitter, H.H. Wallace, Ira Shade, Hiram Stanskil, and S.H. Davis and Company. The photo has a rounded top and is mounted to a piece of yellowed cardstock bearing the title and "J. Watson, Artist, Detroit" below.
- Date Issued:
- 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Poster. Contains a clipping from the May 16, 1867 edition of the Advertiser and Tribune, commemorating the laying of the first stone for City Hall, along with a transcription of the article. At the top of the poster is text reading "First Stone of the New City Hall 1867," followed by the clipping which is inset inside a thin black border. The clipping is surrounded by the following names: Mayor - Merrill I. Mills, City Clerk - Henry Starkey, City Treasurer - E.S. Leadbeater, City Attorney - T.H. Hartwell, City Controller - A.H. Pedfield, City Counselor - William Gray. The bottom half of the poster contains the transcription of the article, as follows: "Laying the First Stone of the New City Hall Early this forenoon, the first stone of the new City Hall was placed in position. The large blocks, six and a half feet in width are easily handled by means of the huge derrick employed. A bed of water lime mortar is first prepared, which, filling any cavities either in the stone or the clay below, gives a firm bearing for the foundation and will do much to prevent settling. The first stone was laid without any formalities though quite a little crowd assembled to see the performance. As the structure thus commenced is one likely to endure for centuries, the record of this fact will be a matter of interest to future generations, when all now living will have laid for ages in their graves and the administration of Andrew Johnson will be regarded as a very early period in the history of the Republic. Fancy the interest that would now be awakened by the discovery in some old file of newspapers (if such were possible) of a record of the exact day and hour of the laying of the first stone of the ancient Westminster Abbey or the Tower of London, yet such interest will the files of the Advertiser and Tribune afford to the antiquary of the twenty-fourth century if not of the twenty-ninth, in relation to the venerable old pile then known as the Detroit City Hall."
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
