Detroit: Visual Materials
Cameramen with the Ford Motor Co. Motion Picture Dept., Detroit, 1914 (John C. Manning papers, Box 4) image bl004037
Cromwell, Percy W.
- Percy W. Cromwell cartoon collection, ca. 1918-ca. 1932.
- 6 oversize boxes.
Cartoonist for the Detroit Times.
Editorial cartoons and sketches relating to local political and social issues.
Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corporation.
- Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corporation visual material collection, 1930-1980.
- 0.2 linear ft.
Assembled by the Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corp. in 1980 for the 50th anniversary of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
Photographs of tunnel construction, dedication, and use, and a film, "The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel," produced by Jack Kausch, 1980, of tunnel construction.
Detroit (Mich.). Police Dept.
- Detroit Police Department photograph collection, July 1967.
Photographs taken by the Detroit Police Department following the 1967 Detroit riot; views of burned-out and vandalized businesses and offices, including interior and exterior views of drinking club where disturbance began. The photographs are arranged by precinct number.
Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Mich.)
- Elmwood Cemetery photograph collection, ca. 1980.
- 0.2 linear ft.
Photographs copied from color slides taken by Mark C. Stevens, secretary-treasurer of the cemetery.
Views of Detroit, the neighborhood around the cemetery, scenery within the cemetery, and gravestones, monuments, and markers; also a transcript of commentary by Stevens on the photographs.
Goin' north : Black Detroit and the great migration, 1910-1930.
- Exhibition materials, 1991.
- ca. 1 linear ft. and 2 oversize folders.
Exhibit (1991) of photographs and documents produced by the Bentley Historical Library in commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the University of Michigan.
Michigan Bell Telephone Company.
- Michigan Bell Telephone Company photograph collection, 1949-1983.
- ca. 63 linear ft.
Photographs (positive and negative), slides, and transparencies taken by the company's photographers to document company activities, products, services, employees at work and at leisure, company exhibits and commemorations, and the response of the company to natural disasters and civil disturbances. Many of the photographs are images of Detroit sites, activities, and personalities.
Michigan Photographers Society.
- Michigan Photographers Society photograph collection, ca. 1880-ca. 1925.
- 0.33 linear ft.
Copy print photographs of streets, businesses, and dwellings in many Michigan cities; also views of ships, railroads, lumbering and agriculture.
Schicker, Louis E., 1896?-1964.
- Louis E. Schicker photograph album, 1910s-1930s.
- 0.5 linear ft.
Resident of Detroit, Mich., who served as photographer with the310th Engineers during the American intervention in North Russia; he laterworked as a Detroit firefighter, homesteaded in Roscommon County, Mich., loggedin the L'Anse, Mich. area, and vacationed at Higgins Lake, Mich.
Photograph album has been disbound. Photographs of 310thEngineers training at Camp Custer, Mich., and in Russia, Detroit Fire Dept.personnel and equipment, Detroit waterfront, farming in Roscommon County,hunting and fishing in Roscommon County, logging in Baraga County.
Mayor Frank Murphy eating Christmas Eve dinner at the Fisher Lodge, a homeless shelter opened in an unused auto factory, Dec. 24, 1931 (Frank Murphy papers, Box 95) image bl004047