Digital Collection
2012.044.113

Print, Photographic

Black and white copy of a photograph, printed on photo paper depicting the north side of Campus Martius as viewed from the southern end of Woodward Avenue. The statues, and covered fountains on the lawn of City Hall; Eagle Art Gallery; a whiskey store; L.L. Farnsworth's shoe store: the Fisher Block containing Marratt's Photograph Gallery, a candy store, and Dr. Schilling's Corsets; a moonlight tower; Mills and Barker Furniture; J.B. Blank and Company, Carpets and Curtains; Wright, Kay, and Company; opticians offices; the Detroit Opera House, where J.L. Hudson's is having a moving sale; Hull Brothers Family Groceries; Charles H. Werner Crockery and Glassware; and the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument are among the pictured landmarks and businesses. Pedestrians, horse-drawn streetcars, and horse-drawn carriages cross the streets. "View up Woodward Ave. taken about 1886/7" handwritten on verso.

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