Digital Collection
2008.112.146

Print, Photographic

Sepia-toned photographic print depicting the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and City Hall as viewed from Campus Martius, facing west. One of the moonlight towers in front of City Hall can be seen. Visible businesses along Michigan Avenue and Woodward Avenue include the Hotel Cadillac; a shoe store; Sol S. Bateson and Brother Merchant Tailors; Eagle Art Gallery, Photographs; L.L. Farnsworth; a candy store and Marratt's Photograph Gallery in the Fisher Block, and J.L. Hudson's. People and horse-drawn carriages are stopped along Woodward and Campus Martius. The balconies of City Hall are also filled with people. A pair of horse-drawn streetcars are travelling along Woodward. "1888" handwritten on verso. "Manning Bros., Inc. Commercial Photographers, 333 State Street. Room 505, Detroit, Michigan" stamped on verso.

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