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A black and white photo of an empty street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of an empty street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Dodge Brothers...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army officers attending the school conducted by the Chrysler Corporation to assist our fighting forces in the job training men to operate the thousands of trucks required by today's streamlined division are given actual practice in driving the trucks in a testing field. Above is an Army officer putting one of these trucks through its paces in a heavy mud wallow which is just one of the many tests to which the driver and vehicle are subjected

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Army officers attending the school con...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Over the top. An Army reconnaissance car which had just climbed a tremendously steep grade on the other side of this hill is here starting its descent down the equally steep grade visible in the picture. Going up and down this hill is a severe test for both driver and vehicle

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Over the top. An Army reconnaissance c...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Down the production line, one after another, come the sturdy, rugged rear axles of Dodge Army trucks in the steady, smooth flowing assembly process. The axles are of the full floating type and are equipped with 14 1/8 inch brake assemblies

Down the production line, one after another, come the sturdy, rugged r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night part at the Detroit yacht club, whose members represent the wealthier class of manufacturers and their friends. Girl with clothing swimming

Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night part at the Detroit yacht club, wh...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Machinist milling the contour of a piston pin retainer for the Packard marine engine. Finished aluminum pistons are in the tray in the foreground. Packard marine engine plant, Detroit

Machinist milling the contour of a piston pin retainer for the Packard...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Row upon row of rugged tires wait to be lifted on to conveyors which deposit them at the right spot on the steadily moving Dodge Army truck production line

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of people working in a factory. Office of War ...

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. Ford Local 600 of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) carrying banners in the Labor Day parade

Detroit, Michigan. Ford Local 600 of the Congress of Industrial Organi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. White and Negro youths line up to register for the salvage drive

Detroit, Michigan. White and Negro youths line up to register for the ...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) carrying various signs in the Labor Day parade

Detroit, Michigan. Members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) of t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping wing section of an airplane in bath, a necessary process prior to painting. Location: a large Midwest factory, recently converted from manufacture of automobile bodies to essential war production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping wing section...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

White and Negro youths at the salvage committee meeting

White and Negro youths at the salvage committee meeting

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Style show of clothes worn by better-dressed office workers, presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Corporation at Saks Fifth Avenue store. Former Chrysler girl with a baby

Detroit, Michigan. Style show of clothes worn by better-dressed office...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vultee vengeance dive bomber - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Vultee vengeance dive bomber - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Additional information on print in lot: Please credit: Vultee Aircraft, Inc. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transf... More

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Assembling a super charger into an engine assembly

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. Style show of clothes worn by better-dressed office workers, presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Corporation at Saks Fifth Avenue store

Detroit, Michigan. Style show of clothes worn by better-dressed office...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Two girls, working in a field of medicinal(?) plants, stopping to get a drink of water

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Two girls, working in a field of medicin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people sitting around a table playing cards. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people sitting around a table playing cards. Office of War ...

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

Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: Earlham Observatory, erected 1861, is a plain, strictly utilitarian building, specifically designed to house a telescope. The scope was built in 1856 by R.B. Rutherford, pioneer American astronom... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Moto...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers M...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Wayne County Building, Detroit, Mich

Wayne County Building, Detroit, Mich

"274-T" on negative. Cadillac Square. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072780. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Randolph Street corridor, second floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Randolph Street corridor, second floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

St. John's Episcopal Church, Woodward Avenue & Vernor Highway, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

St. John's Episcopal Church, Woodward Avenue & Vernor Highway, Detroit...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Fort & Third Streets, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Fort & Third Streets, Detroit, Wayne ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. An x-ray tube.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Group of models with elaborate coiffures at a hair styling show

Detroit, Michigan. Group of models with elaborate coiffures at a hair ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. General view showing huge stockpiles of coal and iron ore

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

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

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Water pouring onto coke

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Fitting a dress at Saks Fifth Avenue store following a fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Corporation

Detroit, Michigan. Fitting a dress at Saks Fifth Avenue store followin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Church in the Negro section

Detroit, Michigan. Church in the Negro section

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Looking over slum houses. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Looking over slum houses. These are conditions unde...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Typical downtown Detroit section

Detroit, Michigan. Typical downtown Detroit section

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Negro girl putting up her hair

Detroit, Michigan. Negro girl putting up her hair

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Complete reduction gear housing assembly

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

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Packaging blood plasma in metal containers

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. P...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. A haulaway loaded with army trucks

Detroit, Michigan. A haulaway loaded with army trucks

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

Adams House, Liberty Avenue, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Adams House, Liberty Avenue, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: This handsome Greek Revival-style house, with unusual segmentally arched dormers, was built between ca. 1830 and 1843. Survey number: HABS IN-111

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne Coun...

Significance: The Detroit Edison Hart Substation is typical of the kind of electrical substations built for the Detroit Edison Company in the early 20th century to step down (reduce) high voltage incoming elect... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory with old cars. Dodge Brothers Mot...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compan...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a living room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a living room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a kitchen. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a kitchen. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old black and white photo of a street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old black and white photo of a street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a crowd of people. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a crowd of people. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

South stairway, first floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

South stairway, first floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hall of the Supervisors, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Hall of the Supervisors, Wayne County Building, Detroit

"79-C" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014742. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, whose members represent the wealthier class of manufacturers and their friends. Commodore and girls drinking

Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, w...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is placed in one of the Army's huge   M-3 tanks. This mechanic is employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton tanks are being made

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 4...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blitz buggies. The body is securely fastened to the chassis, and the headlights adjusted. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. The body is securely fastened to the chassis, and the h...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 1/2 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a family walking down a path. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a family walking down a path. Office of War...

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. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a scrap salvage rally sponsored by the Work Projects Adminstration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds

Detroit, Michigan. Jitterbug dancing as part of the entertainment at a...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project, caused by white neighbors' attempt to prevent Negro tenants from moving in. White picket line

Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. feder...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Standard Oil truck used during a rubber scrap drive

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Standard Oil truck used during a rubber ...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a bakery, before Pearl Harbor, but today twenty-one-year-old Eugenia Bireta is a qualified government inspector who tests gas masks for "eye leakage" on this pressure gauge. She's one of many young women employed by a large Midwest vacuum cleaner company now converted to production of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a ba...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Blast furnaces

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. A box for suggestions from workers installed in the Cadillac motor car division of General Motors Corporation(?). Suggestion box with worker placing suggestions within

Detroit, Michigan. A box for suggestions from workers installed in the...

Public domain photograph related to the United States industrial history, General Motors Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Office workers checking out at the Chrysler Corporation

Detroit, Michigan. Office workers checking out at the Chrysler Corpora...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. General view showing the steel framework on which mechanism for unloading boats is mounted

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Removing the door of the coke oven so that pusher can be inserted into one of the sections

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

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. Loading steel bars on a truck

Detroit, Michigan. Loading steel bars on a truck

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Effect of pantothenic acid on rats

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

Detroit, Michigan. Loading a haulaway truck with army cars

Detroit, Michigan. Loading a haulaway truck with army cars

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Wayne, Wayne County, Nebraska

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Wayne, Wayne County, Nebraska

Apr 1897. 3 Sheet(s). Nebraska 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

Inselrue Bridge, Inselrue Avenue spanning Nashua Canal, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

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

Hicksite Friends Meetinghouse, 1150 North A Street, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Hicksite Friends Meetinghouse, 1150 North A Street, Richmond, Wayne Co...

Significance: The Hicksite Friends, the largest and most influential religious sect in nineteenth-century Richmond, acquired a plot of land from Charles W. Starr in 1864. By the following year they had erected... More

Buhl Sons Company Complex, 120-234 Adair Street, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Buhl Sons Company Complex, 120-234 Adair Street, Detroit, Wayne County...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old City Hall, Woodward Avenue & Cadillac Square, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Old City Hall, Woodward Avenue & Cadillac Square, Detroit, Wayne Count...

Significance: Date of construction: 1871. Architect: James Anderson. Sandstone. Three and a half stories, rectangular. Central pavilion with Mansard roof; four stage cupola (arcade, clock, belfry, octagonal... More

Chrysler Center, Plant No. 4, Highland Park, Wayne County, MI

Chrysler Center, Plant No. 4, Highland Park, Wayne County, MI

Significance: The oldest segment of this building was an assembly plant for the Maxwell automobile in 1916-1925. The Chrysler Corporation assembled Chrysler automobiles here in 1925-1928, along with the company... More

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compan...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of men working on old cars. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of men working on old cars. Dodge Brothers Mot...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of an office. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of an office. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old black and white photo of a roller coaster. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old black and white photo of a roller coaster. Dodge Brothers Motor...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Justice House, 109 Seminary Street, Milton, Wayne County, IN

Justice House, 109 Seminary Street, Milton, Wayne County, IN

Significance: The Justice House, 109 Seminary St. Lot 7 Block 11, Milton, Indiana located in Wayne County, Indiana. Block 11 was laid out in 1828, just four years after Milton was chartered as a town in 1824. ... More

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam's defense industries. Not only are welded connections as strong as, or stronger than, riveted connections, but they mean a saving steel and in overall weight. This welder is working on the engine support assembly of an M-3 tank at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert welders are important to Uncle Sam...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoining the Chrysler tank arsenal, near Detroit. This is one of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks, the steel monsters which will make our mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in tank warfare. The lower of the two barrels is that of a 75 mm warfare gun, the upper of a 47 mm. anti-aircraft gun, both standard equipment on these tanks. In addition, four machine guns are mounted on each M-3

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near Detroit, putting the tracks on one of the giant M-3 tanks. These rolling arsenals weigh twenty-eight tons, are capable of speeds over twenty-five miles an hour and are equipped with 75 mm. field artillery gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as four mounted machine guns and various unmounted arms its crew may carry. The tanks are powered by 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engines

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Experienced and skilled workers in the Dodge truck plant gun-welding the "strainers" or reinforcements to the top and back panels of Army trucks, to give the full measure of strength and rigidity required in strenuous Army service

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Experienced and skilled workers in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store

Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department st...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two women in a bathroom. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two women in a bathroom. Office of War Info...

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

The body after being lowered, is securely fastened to the chassis and the headlights adjusted. Ford River Rouge plant

The body after being lowered, is securely fastened to the chassis and ...

Public domain photograph of car garage, repair shop, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...

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

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels produced in a former automobile plant. Those pictured above are about halfway through the manufacturing process. Chrsyler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-airc...

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

A black and white photo of some people dancing. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of some people dancing. Office of War Informat...

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. A typical Negro worker's family. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. A typical Negro worker's family. These are conditio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Multiple unit at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Multiple unit at the Sojourner Truth homes, a new U...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Five o'clock crowds in the front of Kern's department store

Detroit, Michigan. Five o'clock crowds in the front of Kern's departme...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vultee vengeance dive bomber - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Vultee vengeance dive bomber - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Additional information on print in lot: Please credit: Vultee Aircraft, Inc. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transf... More

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