Print, Photographic

Blue-tinted black and white photographic print depicting a view of the dome atop City Hall and Campus Martius beyond taken from an elevated position behind City Hall. The dome, the statuary below, and the clock are in the center of the frame. In view are the Pontchartrain Hotel, the chop suey houses and loan offices of the Monroe Block, the Wayne County Building, Burns Hotel, Liberty Theatre (screening the 1914 film, "Tess of the Storm Country"), National Theater, D.M. Ferry and Company Seed Warehouse, the Merrill Fountain, and the Gregory Mayer & Thom Co. Building under construction in Cadillac Square. Advertisements for Altes Lager, Lozier, Goodrich Tires, Ralston Shoes, and Fatima Cigarettes are posted. Pedestrians, automobiles, and electric streetcars are in the streets below. "Before 1916, prob 1914" and "Mary Pickford in Tess of the Storm Country" handwritten on verso. "Mar 12 1926" stamped on verso.