Digital Collection
2012.044.575

Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print depicting a rally held in support of the Flint Sit-Down Strike, held in Cadillac Square and Campus Martius, as viewed from the an elevated position in the Wayne County Building, facing west. A large crowd is gathered. Due to a long or double exposure, the demonstrators' signs are unreadable. Several people stand atop cars, some with movie cameras, amid the protest. The naval gun on the lawn of the Wayne County Building is at the lower right. The Lawyers Building, in addition to bearing signs for United Cigars, Louis the Hatter, and the Detroit Law Journal, has also been draped with several banners, including one calling for the election of Judge Wroblesky, outside the window of E. Z. Wroblesky, Lawyer. Also in view are Demos Soda, a gunsmith, Eppinger Sporting Goods, Schroeder Paint and Glass, Detroit Design Company Signs, the Barlum Hotel, the Cadillac Square Building, the Monroe Block's Family Theatre, the Majestic Building, the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, electric streetcars and the streetcar station in Cadillac Square, and City Hall, where a banner reading, "Fight Cancer, Women's Field Army, March 21-27th, 1937," is hung. "13," is printed in the lower left corner. "Cadillac Sq. UAW Demonstration c. Mar 1937," is handwritten on the verso.

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