Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. F...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...
Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Girls harvesting medicinal(?) plants
Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. F...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. E...
Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. A...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. P...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hammond, Indiana. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad train on the Michigan C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Detroit, Michigan. A haulaway loaded with army cars
Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Detroit, Michigan. Trainmen in the freight yard
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Exte...
Box. no. 1. No. 65. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan, 1945; 1946-56. Desi...
Box. no. 1. No. 108. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
University of Michigan, School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1952-58....
Box. no. 2. No. 255. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Eero Saarinen guest house (originally Loja Saarinen house), Bloomfield...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Railroad Overpass, Near Piquette Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI
Survey number: HAER MI-354 Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Illinois & Michigan Canal Bri...
Significance: Of the two surviving plate-girder swing bridges built across the I & M Canal, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Canal Bridge is the only one which contains a center pivot pier. The others were b... More
S & C Dining Car, Highland Park, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
General Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan
Designed by architect Eero Saarinen. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subje... More
State Theater, angle front, Washington Street, Bay City, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More
General Motors Technical Center Building, Warren, Michigan
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Barrel Drive-In, Center Street, Douglas, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More
Oliver Twist ice cream sign, Royal Oak, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More
Clown tower, Royal Oak miniature golf, Royal Oak, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More
Prehistoric Forest, Onsted, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More
Photo opportunity, Bulcan Iron Mountain iron mine, Norway, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More
Citadel Mall, Port Huron, Michigan
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Details from the "million dollar courthouse," the Theodore Levin Unite...
Courtroom is from the previous building built in 1896. It was disassembled and reassembled in the new building in 1932. It contains over 30 types of marble. Behind the bench is a frieze of 10 female figures dep... More
Former Packard Plant, E. Grand Blvd. at Concord, Detroit, 2000 (Water ...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Side exterior full, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Port Huron, ...
Architect: Alfred B. Mullett. Built between 1873-1877. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More
Oblique view, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Port Huron, Michig...
Architect: Alfred B. Mullett. Built between 1873-1877. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More
G.W. Grummond, US Army Photo, three-fourth length photographic portrai...
3/4 lgth., standing, facing left. Lt. Col., 14th Mich. Infantry.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Port Huron, Saint Clair County, Michig...
Jan 1898. 21 Sheet(s). Michigan fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Dime Savings Bank, main floor, Detroit, Mich.
Title from jacket. "501-T," "500-T," and "499-T" on L, C, and R negatives, respectively. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 067028. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Excursion steamers at wharves, Detroit
Negatives are close variants. "G 80" on A negative; "G 82" and "dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co., nos. 068057, 013634 (the latter erased). Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Market Street, Chicago. Michigan peaches arriving
H70169 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted in 1905 by C.H. Graves. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill. C. Bldgs.; Ill. C. Sts.; Markets; Shelf.
Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Mich.
Photo shows Tug boat S.J. Christian in front of the Charles B. Hill, which is on the ways. The passenger steamer Conestoga is on the left. (Source: C. Seavey, 2018) Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out o... More
[Hunting from a canoe (with 2 dogs) on Shaky Lake, Menominee County, M...
Photograph shows a man hunting from a canoe (with 2 dogs) on Shaky Lake, Menominee County, Michigan. H77919 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley, 1906. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Michigan.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Onaway, Presque Isle County, Michigan
Sep 1907. 4 Sheet(s). Michigan fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Bathers, Lake Michigan, Chicago. Stereoscopic card of Chicago, IL, 19t...
H106421 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Stereo-Travel Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Bathing beaches; Ill. C-; Shelf.
The Grounds, Water Works Park, Detroit
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-06040, 06039, 06038. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010433. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Livingstone Channel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10372, 10371, 10370. "G 7611 L," "G 7612 C," and "G 7613 R" on left to right negatives respectively. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015662. Gif... More
The Country club, Grosse Pointe, Mich.
Title from jacket. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19308, 19307. "278-L-T" on left negative; "277 R-T" on right negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 037225. Gift; State Hi... More
Grand Circus Park from Detroit Athletic Club Building, Detroit, Mich.
Title from jacket. Negatives are close variants. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073473. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Great Lakes Engineering Co - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-06658, 06657, 06656. Center negative broken along center and taped to second sheet. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010784. Gift; State Historical S... More
Belle Isle Park, Grand Canal - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...
3 negatives form one panorama; there is a close variant of each negative. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-05264, 05262, 05260 (D4-6192 L, C, R) and 05263, 05265, 05261 (D4... More
Portage Lake, Hancock, and Houghton, Mich., from the west
Videodisc images out of sequence; actual left to right order is: 1A-07018, 07017, 07016, 07015. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Numbers on negatives (left to right): "G 3322," "G 3323," "G 3324" and ... More
Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821
"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More
General view, Detroit, Mich. - A black and white photo of a city
12 negatives form one panorama with close variants of 5 sections. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10213, 10214, 10212, 10211, 10210 (or 10209, 10208, 10207), 10204, 10206,... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan
Jan 1915. 30 Sheet(s). Michigan fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More
Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...
Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A
Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...
Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A
Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...
Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A
Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...
Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A
Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...
Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
The Heart of the copper country, Calumet, Mich.
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lincoln School, 1000 Tuscola Avenue, Saginaw, Saginaw County, MI
Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Selfridge Field, Building No. 1041, West of E Street, north of D Stree...
Significance: The NORAD district occupies distinct complex at Selfridge that was self contained and isolated from the rest of the base for functional and security reasons. It consists of utilitarian structures ... More
Sculpture, courtyard, and artifacts, Detroit Institute of Art [Detroit...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poletown Historic District, Detroit Steel Products Company Plant, 7610...
Significance: It was the main manufacturing plant of the Detroit Steel Products Company from 1907 to 1960. This firm was an important manufacturer of automobile springs and steel window frames. It was a major... More
[Landing of Cadillac's wife in Detroit]
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blacksmith Shop, Route 209, Glen Arbor, Leelanau County, MI
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N36 Survey number: HABS MI-380 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 83000882
Fourteen Mile Road Bridge, Spanning St. Joseph River, Tekonsha, Calhou...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript, folio, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The county of Saginaw, Michigan : topography, history, art folio /
Picryl description: Public domain image of printed material, catalog page, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Arden H. Ballard House, 218 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Washte...
Significance: The Ladies Literary Club house is a surviving example of a 1840s Greek Revival house, with massive entry columns. The organization has owned the property since 1913 and was honored with a historic... More
Livingstone Channel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Poletown Historic District, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 341...
Significance: The building is primarily of architectural significance. It displays an austere Romanesque Revival exterior and an elaborate interior, reflecting the traditions of Polish church architecture. Th... More
North Bridge, Spanning Quarton Lake branch of River Rouge, Birmingham,...
Survey number: HAER MI-78 Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parkside Homes & Addition, World War II Era Building Type 1, Bounded b...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
East Cass Street Bridge, Spanning Kalamazoo River, Albion, Calhoun Cou...
Significance: The East Cass Street Bridge is a rare example of a stone arch highway bridge, a type seldom used in Michigan because of the availability of cheap timber. The structure is also uncommon because it... More
East Cass Street Bridge, Spanning Kalamazoo River, Albion, Calhoun Cou...
Significance: The East Cass Street Bridge is a rare example of a stone arch highway bridge, a type seldom used in Michigan because of the availability of cheap timber. The structure is also uncommon because it... More
East Cass Street Bridge, Spanning Kalamazoo River, Albion, Calhoun Cou...
Significance: The East Cass Street Bridge is a rare example of a stone arch highway bridge, a type seldom used in Michigan because of the availability of cheap timber. The structure is also uncommon because it... More
Selfridge Field, Building No. 181, Supply Street at Walnut Street, Mou...
Significance: This building represents the functional structures erected on base as Selfridge expanded to address its Cold War training mission and was integral to providing daily food services to base personne... More
The Heart of Detroit, Mich. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Comstock Road Bridge, Comstock Road spanning Black River, 0.2 mile sou...
Significance: This bridge is one of very few examples of a cast-in-place concrete closed spandrel (non-filled) deck arch structure found in Michigan. The attention to cosmetic detail (such as the precast concr... More
Comstock Road Bridge, Comstock Road spanning Black River, 0.2 mile sou...
Significance: This bridge is one of very few examples of a cast-in-place concrete closed spandrel (non-filled) deck arch structure found in Michigan. The attention to cosmetic detail (such as the precast concr... More
Selfridge Field, Building No. 833, West of Mulberry Street north of Ge...
Significance: This building represents the utilitarian buildings erected at Selfridge as the base expanded to meet its WWII training mission and its functional nature is typical of the spartan buildings built f... More
Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Par...
Significance: This is one of more than a dozen small bridges built to carry traffic across the lagoons and canals which crisscross Belle Isle, Detroit's major public park in the late nineteenth and early twenti... More
Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Par...
Significance: This is one of more than a dozen small bridges built to carry traffic across the lagoons and canals which crisscross Belle Isle, Detroit's major public park in the late nineteenth and early twenti... More
Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Par...
Significance: This is one of more than a dozen small bridges built to carry traffic across the lagoons and canals which crisscross Belle Isle, Detroit's major public park in the late nineteenth and early twenti... More
Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Par...
Significance: This is one of more than a dozen small bridges built to carry traffic across the lagoons and canals which crisscross Belle Isle, Detroit's major public park in the late nineteenth and early twenti... More
Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, Intake Tower, 6928 East Thirty-sixth Street...
Significance: The tower is part of the Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, built in the early 1930s as a link in Consumers Power Company's system of electric power generation. In designing and building Hardy, the compan... More
Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, Intake Tower, 6928 East Thirty-sixth Street...
Significance: The tower is part of the Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, built in the early 1930s as a link in Consumers Power Company's system of electric power generation. In designing and building Hardy, the compan... More
Michigan Central Railroad Station, Capitol Avenue, Battle Creek, Calho...
Significance: Presidents William McKinley and William Howard Taft spoke here. The first passenger train that stopped at this station was on June 27, 1888. It carried members of the American Society of Civil E... More
Dix Bascule Bridge, Spanning Rouge River at Dix Avenue, Detroit, Wayne...
Significance: The Dix Bascule Bridge is the newest of three double-leaf trunnion drawbridges constructed over the Rouge River in the 1920's. It is important in local history for its relation to the economic de... More
Dix Bascule Bridge, Spanning Rouge River at Dix Avenue, Detroit, Wayne...
Significance: The Dix Bascule Bridge is the newest of three double-leaf trunnion drawbridges constructed over the Rouge River in the 1920's. It is important in local history for its relation to the economic de... More
Dix Bascule Bridge, Spanning Rouge River at Dix Avenue, Detroit, Wayne...
Significance: The Dix Bascule Bridge is the newest of three double-leaf trunnion drawbridges constructed over the Rouge River in the 1920's. It is important in local history for its relation to the economic de... More
Knaggs Bridge, Spanning Shiawassee River on Cole Road, Bancroft, Shiaw...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge over a water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Building No. T38, Southfi...
Significance: Building T38 was constructed in 1948 as a staff car garage, a function it appears to have served continuously. It is one of the few frame buildings on the hospital complex. Stylistically, it ref... More
[Panorama, Port Huron, Mich.] - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Veterans Memorial Park & Parkway, M-120 Northbound Bridge, Spanning Ce...
Significance: The Veterans Memorial Park and Parkway, M-120 Northbound Bridge derives its significance by its historical association with the Veterans Memorial Park. The park and bridge are early examples of l... More
Veterans Memorial Park & Parkway, M-120 Northbound Bridge, Spanning Ce...
Significance: The Veterans Memorial Park and Parkway, M-120 Northbound Bridge derives its significance by its historical association with the Veterans Memorial Park. The park and bridge are early examples of l... More
Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Southfield Expressway & O...
Significance: The Allen Park Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital, now known as the Allen Park Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, served as a hospital for U.S. veterans from its opening in 1939 to ... More
D.H. Day Farmstead, Outbuilding, Route 109, Glen Arbor, Leelanau Count...
Significance: Light (2") wood balloon framing (1" ribbon nailed to studs for 2nd floor joist support). Structure was apparently neither level nor plumb nor square even when built, based on dimensional discrepa... More