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(25240) UAW Organizing, Battle of the Overpass, Dearborn, 1937

UAW organizers, members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary and their supporters are forced back from the Ford Rouge Plant and into the Detroit Street Railway waiting area by Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the Overpass. ...

Image - eclemens - 05/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28312) Ethnic Communities, Russian, Dancers, 1939

Russian dancers George Werem and Olga Omelianoff strike a pose. Noted on verso is the phrase "Rho Alpha Chi." Date:  1939-12-16 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Detroit News Staff - Seiter ...

Image - eclemens - 03/29/2012 - 08:38 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(32167) Army, Training Camp, Trench Building, 1917-1918

Soldiers practice building trenches at an U.S. Army training camp, likely Camp Custer or Camp Grayling. Date:  1917-1918 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Detroit ...

Image - eclemens - 07/28/2014 - 13:26 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(79614) Ethnic Communities, Sebian, Customs, 1954

Parishoners hold aloft badjnaks (oak tree branches laden with fruit and bedecked with ribbons), outside of the Ravanica Serbian Orthodox Church during a Christmas celebration. Father Miodrag Mijatovich stands at center. Date:  1954-01- ...

Image - eclemens - 01/07/2015 - 14:57 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28391) Ethnic Communities, Mexican, Religion, 1939

Father Joseph C. Lopez visits with families in his parish. Location is noted as "Maybury Grand." Left to right: Mrs. Hope Valdez, Richard Valdez, Theresa Padilla, Frances Padilla, Isabell Valdez, Fr. Lopez Date:  1939-04-05 ...

Image - eclemens - 03/29/2012 - 13:24 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(45916) Sports, Baseball, Tigers, Pennant Win, 1968

Fans celebrate in the streets of downtown Detroit after the Detroit Tigers win the 1968 American League Pennant. Date:  1968-09-17 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Tony Spina (Baseba ...

Image - eclemens - 09/17/2020 - 11:33 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(vmc3323) Television; Stations; WGPR-TV; New All Black Station.

Five men and one woman pose near television equipment at WGPR-TV, the first Black owned and operated television station in the United States. Third from the left is most likely station owner William V. Banks. Date:  1975-05-19 ...

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(3707) Classroom, Interiors, Old Main, 1935

Unidentified classroom in Wayne University's Old Main, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  1935-xx-xxxx Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Unknown (Architecture, Detroit (Mich.), Education, Higher, ...

Image - eclemens - 02/16/2011 - 22:59 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2408) Stella Berbynuk, SWE Drive, 1961 National Convention

Stella Berbynuk of the SWE Detroit section checks Detroit's standings SWE Drive fundraising campaign at the 1961 Society of Women Engineers National Convention (Conference) in Boston, Massachusetts. Date:  1961 Physdesc:&n ...

Image - teller - 11/13/2008 - 12:22 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(79613) Ethnic Communities, Serbian, Music, 1938

Louis Pacashkoff plays violin and Mildred Jovanovich plays tamburitza during a demonstration of Serbian music. Date:  1938-03-29 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Metr ...

Image - eclemens - 06/10/2013 - 14:53 - 0 comments - 3 attachments