2013.040.356
Print, Photographic
Black and white photo of Solan Weeks, director of the Detroit Historical Society, presenting a check to Jean LaFougere, mayor of Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave, for the restoration of the birthplace of Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, as John Dunn, and Mark Stevens look on. A typewritten caption pasted to the verso reads, "Ceremony in the mayor's office, St. Nicholas de la Grave, October 1972. Left to right: John Dunn, of Paris, formerly of Detroit; Mark C. Stevens, immediate past president Detroit Historical Society; Solan W. Weeks, director of Detroit Historical Museum; M. Jean LaFougere, mayor of St. Nicholas de la Grave; Weeks presents check for restoration of Cadillac's birthplace to the mayor.
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