Postcard

Bathing Beach, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Color postcard depicting many people and canoes on the beach on Belle Isle, with a moonlight tower in the background.
Printed on verso: Belle Isle is in the Detroit River, between Detroit and Windsor, Canada. The Island contains 702 acres and it entirely covered with one of the most beautiful parts in the United States, having some 21 miles of Macadam Roads; a magnificent Casino, Pavilions; Boat Houses, Aquarium, Horticultural Hall and Zoological Gardens. The Island was purchased by Detroit in 1879 and has since then expended $1,600,000 in beautifying it.