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- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting The Hazard Apartment House on the west side of Cass Avenue between Peterboro and Stimson Streets. Handwritten message on verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a Walker & Co. advertisement for Artic Brand Ice Cream painted on the side of Kirschbaum Tailor that reads, "All Year Round, Artic Quality Ice Creams". In view is traffic on Woodward Avenue, facing south from Martin Place. Businesses lining the street include Massachusetts Laundry, Serve-U Lunch, Sherrat Electric Co., and a Studebaker dealership. Dated 6/4/1923
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Walker & Co.
- Description:
- Blurry black and white photo of a northbound Detroit United Railway Woodward Avenue streetcar approaching, taken from the center of Woodward, north of Forest Avenue, facing south. The car has a sign on its eclipse fender however it is illegible. Horse-drawn wagons and carriages, as well as pedestrians are also in the street. The DeHoney Dance Academy stands on the right in the background. Woodward is paved with bricks.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo taken to document the pavement at John R Street and Farnsworth Street. A man sits in an early automobile, stopped alongside the curb, where four girls and a boy wait. A dark wooden shed with double doors across the sidewalk behind them. In the background, on the right, two women stand beside an open window. A manhole is in the street in the foreground. "July 20th, 1903. Schwartz casr[?], John R. + Farnsworth there had not been any change in the pavement. F.S.Q." is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting two apartment buildings on the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Hendrie Street. A sign for David F. Godfrey, Automobile Painting, Trimming, Top and Body Repair, is visible in the background along Hendrie. Dated 2-17-1918
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white street view photograph from a glass plate negative of the northeast corner of Woodward and Palmer, as noted on the verso. Street car rails are visible in the thoroughfare in the foreground of the image. An automobile is traveling down Woodward, others are parked adjacent to the curb. A commercial building neighbors Woodward, includes the businesses of Smith Drug Company, R.S. Wendell Meat Market, and Auto Tire Repair. A moonlight tower is affixed to the corner of Woodward and Palmer.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white street view photograph from a glass plate negative of the east side of Woodward looking north between Martin Place and Alexandrine, as noted on the verso. Street car tracks are visible in the thoroughfare, located in the foreground. A woman is walking the sidewalk adjacent to Woodward and Martin Place; behind her is a large residence in the Romanesque architectural style; neighbored by a second residence and commercial buildings. Commercial businesses include Hupmobile and Taxi Cab; automobiles are parked next to the curb in front of these two locales.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting Woodward Avenue, facing south. Both sides of the street are lined with trees. Handwritten message on recto, postmarked Jul 14, 1907.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a Walker & Co. billboard on the east side of Woodward Avenue displaying an advertisement for Eureka vacuum cleaners that reads, "A Christmas She Will Never Forget, The Grand Prize Eureka Vacuum Cleaner, $8.50 Set of Attachments Free with Each Purchase, $4.50 Down Special Christmas Offer, Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. Retail Store 1521 Broadway; Also sold by T.B. Rayl, J.L. Hudson Co., and Crowley Milner Co." The billboard is flanked by two signs both reading "Free $8.50 Set of Attachments Free with Each Purchase of a Grand Prize Eureka Vacuum Cleaner". In the background is the Hecker-Smiley Mansion, houses on E Ferry Street, and construction site of The Wardell. Dated 11-3-1925
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a Walker & Co. advertisement for Artic Brand Ice Cream painted on the side of Kirschbaum Tailor that reads, "All Year Round, Artic Quality Ice Creams". In view is traffic on Woodward Avenue, facing south from Martin Place. Businesses lining the street include Massachusetts Laundry, Serve-U Lunch, Sherrat Electric Co., and a Studebaker dealership. Dated 6/4/1923
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
