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(32176) Women, War Workers, Munitions, Lincoln Motor Company, Detroit, 1918

A female munitions worker at Lincoln Motor Company poses with one of the shells she helped build. Date:  1918-05 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Detroit (Mich.) ...

Image - eclemens - 01/19/2018 - 17:18 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33613) Recruitment, Army, Detroit, 1940

Men from the U.S. Army Recruitment Agency admire a Railway Express Agency truck that has a recruitment sign affixed to its side. Left to right: L.D. Stout, Captain R.L. Gillespie, Sergeant Clare Bearss, Sergeant Frank Royce, H.J. Perrault ...

Image - eclemens - 10/27/2015 - 16:17 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(32126) Draft & Recruitment, Deployment, Detroit, 1918

A group of draftees and recruits, some carrying suitcases or valises, walk through an unidentified building, possibly Michigan Central Station (M.C.R.R.) as they prepare to leave for Camp Custer. Date:  1918 Physdesc:&nbs ...

Image - eclemens - 07/25/2014 - 16:16 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(9813) Detroit Librarian

Helga Herz, librarian and member of Local 1259 in Detroit, shows a book on the Knights of Labor to Alvin Ruthenberg, staff representative for Detroit Area Council 77. This image appeared in the November 1959 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine. ...

Image - jruss - 05/09/2023 - 11:40 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(30719) Architecture, Detroit, 1966

Close view of architectural detail on an unidentified building in downtown Detroit. Date:  1966-09 Physdesc:  Slide (Streetscapes and Storefronts: City Life in 1960s Detroit, Architecture, Detroit (Mich.), Urb ...

Image - eclemens - 11/14/2013 - 14:29 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(32177) Women, War Workers, Munitions, Lincoln Motor Company, Detroit, 1918

Women munitions workers at their stations in the Lincoln Motor Company plant. Date:  1918-05 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  Detroit News Staff (Detroit (Mich.), Detroit News, The H ...

Image - eclemens - 07/28/2014 - 14:22 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33654) Red Cross, War Stamps, Detroit, 1942

Members of the Red Cross Motor Corps sell war stamps to the public on Armistice Day. Left to right: Evelyn Dinnen; Nell Rhoades; Josephine Greenblatt; Mrs. Fayette Goodman. Date:  1942-11-11 Physdesc:  Photo neg ...

Image - eclemens - 11/10/2015 - 14:38 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2416) Buildings, Churches, Old Mariners', Detroit, 1955

Old Mariners’ Church gingerly makes her way from her original location at the foot of Woodward Avenue to her new home at East Jefferson Avenue and Randolph Street. The Bob-Lo boat building, the Vernors plant and the Detroit River are visible in the ba ...

Image - eclemens - 07/16/2010 - 11:51 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33620) Navy, Propaganda, Japanese Sub, Detroit, 1943

A crowd gathers around of the United Artists Theater on Bagley Avenue to look at a captured Japanese "Suicide Sub." The display was part of a war bonds drive. Date:  1943-07-09 Physdesc:  Photo negative ...

Image - eclemens - 11/12/2015 - 09:59 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33666) Rationing, Meat, Detroit, 1943

Crowds fill a shop, likely the Gratiot Central Meat Market, eager to stockpile meat during the last day before rationing went into effect. Date:  1943-03-27 Physdesc:  Photo negative Photographer:  ...

Image - eclemens - 11/11/2015 - 11:06 - 0 comments - 3 attachments