Digital Collection
2012.045.156

Postcard

The Detroit News Building, The World's Greatest Newspaper Plant

Postcard. Color illustration depicting the Detroit News Building from the corner of W Fort Street and Second Avenue, flying an American flag, with an automobile parked on the street. Printed on the recto, "The Institutional Character of the Newspaper is Expressed in its Architecture." Printed on verso, "The Detroit News. Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1873 by James Edmund Scripps. The Detroit News has become on of the foremost newspapers in America, and occupies the largest as well as the most completely and modernly equipped newspaper manufactory in the world."

Date
c. 1920
Collection
Extent of Description
3.5" x 5.4375"
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