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- Description:
- Black and white street view photograph from a glass plate negative of the north side of Monroe. Pedestrians are visible walking the neighboring sidewalk and through the avenue. A street car is traveling along the tracks through the center of the thoroughfare; horse carriages are also visible. Several businesses are adjacent to Monroe, those visible include, Juzek Brothers Tailors, Cosmopolitan Restaurant, Nederlander's Loan Office, Detroit Printing Stationery Company, Menter and Rosenbloom Clothing Company, Erlenbach's Millinery, Chop Suey, and the Hotel Ste. Claire. Written on the verso, " 3rd Block, north side Monroe - Farmer to Randolph, 1910."
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting a view along a snow-covered street. Possibly W Kirby Street. Dated Dec 27, 1920.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white street view photograph from a glass plate negative of the west side of Woodward Avenue, looking south, between Henry and Sibley. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk neighboring the avenue. Commercial buildings are adjacent to the thoroughfare, including the Hotel Hofman, an automobile is parked in front of the hotel. The spires of a church are visible in the background. Written on the verso, "West side of Woodward, looking south, between Henry and Sibley, 1910."
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Small sepia-toned photographic print captioned on the verso as "Washington Boulevard, iceberg at park, March 10th 1918." It depicts the ice fountain on the median of Washington Boulevard, north of Michigan Avenue, as viewed from the west side of Washington, facing northeast. A streetlight pole is in the foreground. Several spectators are gathered around the fountain. The Cadillac Hotel is on the right. St. Aloysius Catholic Church is visible beyond the fountain, and the David Whitney Building is in the distance at the left.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of two men in conductor's uniforms, likely Detroit United Railway workers, collecting funds to support the Boston street car strike along the sidewalk on the west side of Woodward Avenue between Atwater Street and the riverfront. The men hold tambourines and stand beside a small cart bearing a sign that reads, "Help the Striking Street Car Men of Boston, Mass." Several other people stand nearby including a boy who appears to be selling newspapers. H.D. Edwards and Company stands in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Small sepia-toned photographic print depicting the exterior of the Ford Highland Park Plant. Several pedestrians, including a group of three adults, three children, and a baby walk along the sidewalk. A "No Parking" sign is in the foreground at the lower right. Show covers the ground. "Mar 1922" handwritten on verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white lantern slide depicting three with with a boat in the shallow water of a mash near Wallin. Handwritten label reads: No.- 53, Bx.- 5, Neg.- Liazelle, Sub. - "Prospecting Big Marsh near Wallin." "E.W. Sprague, Detroit, Mich." "Prospecting Big Marsh, 1908."
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Large black and white photographic print depicting a donkey-drawn cart draped in cloth with a stars-and-stripes pattern, filled with children, and shaded by a large umbrella, which took part in the parade held as part of Detroit's bicentennial celebration in 1901. A man in a hat and robe stands aside the donkey. The donkey wears a saddle blanket decorated with several indiscernible words. A pair of other adults and several other children, including some with bicycles, gather around the wagon, while more adults watch from the porches of two homes in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Black and white glossy aerial photo shows the General Motors Building (center of photo) and surrounding area. The view is looking northeastward and shows the south side of the General Motors Building with 2nd Avenue to the west (left) and Cass Avenue to the east (right). Two railroad track beds can be seen running east and west about one block south of the General Motors Building. Printed text in the lower right corner reads "Copyright 1926, Kalec & Forster." The Fisher Building had not yet been constructed at the time this photo was taken.
- Date Issued:
- 1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photographic print with a black margin on its left edge printed with "Up Woodward Ave. 1-20-15." The photo was taken from an elevated position above Grand Circus Park, possibly from the David Whitney Building, peering north along Woodward Avenue. Central United Methodist Church, a piano store, a sign company, H.R. Leonard Furniture Company, St. John's Episcopal Church, the Elliott-Taylor-Wolfenden Company, Childs Restaurant, the Grand Circus Theatre, and a drug store topped with a Pastora Ten Cent Cigar billboard.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
