Digital Collection
2010.036.037

Print, Photographic

Black and white photograph of the construction of the steel frame for the City-County Building. A Walker and Company billboard showing an artist's rendering of the planned building, as well as conveying information about the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority and the involved contractors--Harley, Ellington and Day, Incorporated; Bryand and Detwiler Company; and the Bethlehem Steel Company. A Checker Cab, and a wheeled garbage can are in the street in front of the construction site. "Jack M. Richards, Photographer, 501 West 9 Mile Rd., Lincoln 2-4520," is stamped on the verso, and "1952," is handwritten.

Date
1952
Collection
Print Size
8" x 10"
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