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(28047) Landmarks, Ossian Sweet House, Detroit, 2001

... home of Dr. Ossian Sweet at Charlevoix and Garland on Detroit’s east side. Date:  2001 ...

Image - eclemens - 02/15/2012 - 17:26 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(24851) NAACP, Reception, Freedom Riders, Episcopalians, Detroit, 1961

The Detroit NAACP welcomes two unidentified Episcopalian Priests during a reception at the Penthouse of the Veteran’s Memorial Building held for a group of Civil Rights Freedom Riders. At left is Arthur (Art) Johnson. Ed Turner stands at center. ...

Image - eclemens - 01/03/2012 - 10:11 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

[Podcast] Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work: Black-Owned Businesses and the Housewives League of Detroit

Allie Penn explains how her work on a grant-funded digitization project introduced her to the Housewives League of Detroit and led to a digital humanities project mapping Detroit Black-owned businesses from the 1930s through 1950s. Espousing ...

Podcasts - teller - 06/05/2020 - 16:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(2470) Buildings, Construction, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1958

The keystone section for Cobo Hall is lowered into place during an early stage of its construction, Detroit, Michigan. Date:  May 6, 1958 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:  Tony Spina (Arc ...

Image - eclemens - 12/14/2010 - 11:54 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

Highlights of the Commission Meeting memoranda, Detroit Commission on Community Relations

Extent:  572kb Date:  1967 DCCR memoranda condensing the minutes of council meetings, summer 1967. Attachment (click to download) UR000267_8_4.pdf 559.06 KB ...

Documents - mcourtney - 06/13/2018 - 15:55 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

(2739) Districts, New Center, Detroit, Michigan, 1980

Looking northeast, an aerial view of the New Center area. The Fisher Building and the General Motors Building (now Cadillac Place) are visible at center. Date:  1980 Physdesc:  Photograph Photographer:&n ...

Image - eclemens - 07/07/2010 - 15:58 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2504) Buildings, City Hall, Demolition, Detroit, 1961

A close up view of workers attending to the “Floral Clock” on the lawn of the Old City Hall Building. Part of series. The building, a Renaissance Revival landmark created by architect James Anderson, took nearly 10 years to complete and was ded ...

Image - eclemens - 07/20/2010 - 14:44 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(33795) Children Playing, Black Bottom, Detroit

... taken of children on the Near East Side, adjacent to Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood. Date:  1930s-1940s ...

Image - eclemens - 08/19/2021 - 10:46 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(2783) Municipal/State/Federal Employees, Detroit Fire Department, Fires, Undated

Members of the Detroit Fire Department battle a blaze in a building near Griswold Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The firefighters spray water from the floor of the alley and from a fire escape on the neighboring building. Date:  ...

Image - eclemens - 06/02/2010 - 10:06 - 0 comments - 3 attachments

(26593) Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "March to Freedom," Detroit, 1963

A bird's-eye view of Woodward Avenue and the estimated 125,000 civil rights demonstrators that participated in the "March to Freedom" in downtown Detroit. Date:  1963-06-23 Physdesc:  Photo negative Phot ...

Image - eclemens - 06/08/2011 - 08:27 - 0 comments - 3 attachments