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(2464) Buildings, Cobo Hall, Parking Structure, Detroit, 1970

An aerial view of the Cobo Hall parking structure, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  1970 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Tony Spina (Architecture, Cobo Center, Detroit (Mich.), Tony Spina - Ge ...

Image - eclemens - 12/14/2010 - 11:55 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33809) Street Scenes, Children Playing, Black Bottom, Detroit

... Part of a series of photographs taken of children in Detroit’s Near East Side. The area includes the Brush Park, Paradise Valley, ...

Image - eclemens - 08/19/2021 - 10:53 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(28291) Ethnic Communities, Italian, Detroit, 1935

Italian-American youths pose for a picture upon their return from a trip to Italy. At center is Cav. Enrico G. Belcredi of the Italian Consul at Detroit. Date:  1935-08-23 Physdesc:  Photograph Photograp ...

Image - eclemens - 06/03/2014 - 10:18 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2784) Municipal/State/Federal Employees, Detroit Fire Department, Fires, 1950s

Firefighters spray a burning department store building with water as a store mannequin, placed at a lamppost by the firefighters for humor, looks away, Detroit, Michigan. Photographer's caption: “The Innocent Bystander” Date:  ...

Image - eclemens - 06/02/2010 - 09:57 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(10302) SWE Detroit, Virginia Sink, 1980

(l to r) Kathleen M. Hammer presents the Society of Women Engineers Detroit Section’s Engineering Achievement Award to Virginia Sink as Lydia Lazurenko (background center) watches during the Engineering Society of Detroit Affiliate Council Gold Award ...

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(33930) Street Views, Paradise Valley, Detroit

Street view of businesses along John R. Street at the corner of Columbia Avenue. Businesses include: Lipin's Hand Laundry (2134-2138 John R), unidentified tailor shop (possibly owned by Abraham Stoller), White Cabin Lunch, and Express Moving. At right, ...

Image - eclemens - 02/04/2016 - 12:53 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2466) Buildings, Construction, Cobo Hall, Groundbreaking Ceremony, Detroit, 1957

Mayor Albert Cobo and Frank Schamanski preside over the event as City Council members and their children break ground for the proposed Convention Center (Cobo Hall), Detroit, Michigan. Date:  July 23, 1957 Physdesc:  ...

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[Podcast] Bootlegged Aliens: How Undocumented Immigrants from Canada in the 1920s Shaped American Immigration Policy

Dr. Ashley Johnson Bavery explains how undocumented European immigrants coming over the Canadian border to work in the Detroit auto industry in the 1920s and 1930s spurred nativist discourse, influenced government policies toward illegal immi ...

Podcasts - teller - 02/03/2021 - 14:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(28910) Ethnic Communities, German, Costumes, Detroit, 1954

A group of young women pose in various regional costumes for a Detroit News story. Front row: Miss Lucille Sims wears an outfit from the Black Forest, while Mrs. Robert J. Schoenfeld represents Salzburg, Austria. Back Row: Betty Schillenhoeller ...

Image - eclemens - 07/06/2012 - 09:39 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(11760) Portrait, Taro Yamasaki, Detroit, 1981

Taro Yamasaki celebrating after winning the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, Detroit, Michigan. Left to right: David Lawrence Jr. (executive editor), Sandy White (director of graphics), Taro Yamasaki, Neal Shine (managing editor). Photog ...

Image - eclemens - 04/27/2010 - 12:54 - 0 comments - 3 attachments