Print, Photographic

Black and white photographic prints, print negative, and negative copy depicting a view of Woodward Avenue, north from Jefferson Avenue. A banner, reading, "Wonderland," is hung across Woodward. Beneath it are a horse-drawn streetcar with banner on its rear reading, "races today," horse carriages, and pedestrians. Several other banners are hung further along Woodward, including one advertising Mabley and Company. The Detroit International Fair and Exposition Room is on the northeast corner of Jefferson and Woodward. Along the west side of Jefferson are C.B. Northrop, a sign company, the Union Ticket Office, a dentist, Swan's, a large "F" sign, a store advertising Garland Stoves and Ranges, and Mabley and Company's Bazaar and Shoe House. Two moonlight towers, likely in front of City Hall, are in the distance, and the shadow of another extends from the bottom of the frame, behind the photographer. Handwritten notes on the versos of several of the prints give a variety of dates; however the Detroit International Fair and Exposition occurred in 1889. The copy of the photo is black and white, washed out, and cropped to omit the buildings on the east side of Woodward as well as some of the ground and sky above and below. The negative copy includes images of tape used to position the original for copying.