Photograph, Cabinet

Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned photo of Detroit's 1835 City Hall in Michigan Grand Avenue, prior to its demolition, taken from across Campus Martius on the lawn of the 1871 City Hall. The Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, pedestrians, a horse-drawn carriage, and one of the columns topped with sculptures of deer heads and light fixtures along the fence which surround the newer City Hall are in view. The photo is on a green Diehl Ladd and Company card, printed with the studio's address 246 Woodward Avenue. An oval-shaped Detroit Institute of Arts stamp around the handwritten mark, "D.I.A.H.S. 118," is on the verso, along with a handwritten note, "Gift A.E. French, Photograph of the old city hall which stood on Cadillac Square. Torn down November 22nd 1872. This photo is from a drawing in the present City Hall."