Digital Collection
2009.019.333

Print, Photographic

Black and white aerial photograph of downtown Detroit, and the area to the west including a portion of Corktown, taken from roughly above Porter Street and Trumbull Street facing east. Porter, Abbott Street, and Howard Street extend from the bottom of the frame. Dean Savage Memorial Park is at the bottom center, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 58 is to its right. The Detroit Trade Center (Executive Plaza Building) is under construction. The city's skyline, including the Hudson's Building, the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel, the David Stott Building, the Cadillac Building, the Penobscot Building, the Guardian Building and the Michigan Consolidated Gas Building, compose the photo's background. "Dept. Report & Info. Comm." stamped on verso. "W.S. Industrial" and "M-1448-3" are handwritten on verso.

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