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A black and white photo of a small room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a small room. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a pillar in a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a pillar in a building. Dodge Brothers Moto...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory with machinery. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory with machinery. Dodge Brothers Mo...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a plan of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a plan of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a ground plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a ground plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Mr. B. D. Edwards, Y.M.C.A., Detroit, Mich.

Mr. B. D. Edwards, Y.M.C.A., Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of the address side of postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Y.M.C.A. bldg., Detroit, Mich. postcard

Y.M.C.A. bldg., Detroit, Mich. postcard

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage YMCA postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan - Wayne County - Inkster - ED 82-42, ED 82-43, ED 82-44, ED 82-45

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan - Wayne County - Inks...

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan - Wayne County

1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan (MI) - Wayne County - Lincoln Park - ED 82-211 to 236

1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan (MI) - Wayne County -...

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Michigan - Wayne County

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). General view of various types of U.S. Army trucks in the large field at the Dodge Lynch Road plant at Detroit, where they are held for various inspections and adjustments before being delivered to the War Department

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). General view of various types of U.S. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Negro section from a white housing development going up on the other side

Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly used on automobile motors, have been moved back in the plant to make way for war work. Soon these machines will be stored outdoors until the tools necessary to adapt them to war activities can be completed. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Line of "honing" machines formerly us...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Afternoon shopping crowds

Detroit, Michigan. Afternoon shopping crowds

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels for the U.S. Army are machined and finished in a former automobile plant. First they are cut to size and then their centers located. After that, they go down long machining lines where they are finished by mass production methods. Never before has any manufacturer attempted to make gun barrels of this size on a mass production basis. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-airc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Detroit, Michigan. Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Sojourner Truth homes, a new U.S. federal housing p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Sign in an installment buying house; "WPA (Work Projects Administration) workers, your credit is good here"

Detroit, Michigan. Sign in an installment buying house; "WPA (Work Pro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Steam rising in quenching tower after water has been poured onto the live coke

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Steam rising in q...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army. Continuous chain conveyors in the stamping department of a converted auto radiator plant where presses form helmets from sheet steel and trim them at the edges. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. Steel helmets for the Army...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detroit, Michigan. Hat check girl with officers' headgear and formal hats on New Year's Eve

Detroit, Michigan. Hat check girl with officers' headgear and formal h...

Picryl description: Public domain American History photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac Square

Detroit, Michigan. Cadillac Square

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Negro baby in a crib. These are conditions under wh...

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Automobile industry. The last automobile engines in a large Midwest factory to be completed prior to its conversion to tank production. These engines will be used to fill government orders for spare parts. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. The last automobile engines in a larg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembly of nose section of B-26 bomber

De Soto bomber plant. Detroit, Michigan. Conveyor line showing assembl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Corporation at Saks Fifth Avenue store. Chrysler girls who are modeling clothes waiting for their turn to go on

Detroit, Michigan. Fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club ...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Stock pile of coal and iron ore

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Vol. 1, 1884. 76 Sheet(s). Bound. Michigan fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insur... More

Dix Bascule Bridge, Spanning Rouge River at Dix Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Dix Bascule Bridge, Spanning Rouge River at Dix Avenue, Detroit, Wayne...

Significance: The Dix Bascule Bridge is the newest of three double-leaf trunnion drawbridges constructed over the Rouge River in the 1920's. It is important in local history for its relation to the economic de... More

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Earlham College Observatory, National Road, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: Earlham Observatory, erected 1861, is a plain, strictly utilitarian building, specifically designed to house a telescope. The scope was built in 1856 by R.B. Rutherford, pioneer American astronom... More

Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Orchestra Hall, 3711 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Significance: Orchestra Hall resembles the typical theatre of its day, with a restrained and elegant adaptation of Renaissance style that preceded the exuberant eclecticism of the next decade. It was designed ... More

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne Coun...

Significance: The Detroit Edison Hart Substation is typical of the kind of electrical substations built for the Detroit Edison Company in the early 20th century to step down (reduce) high voltage incoming elect... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Moto...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers M...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A Ramble in Wayne County - Penn. Lower Falls of the Wallenpaupack, from Cromwell's Ledge.

A Ramble in Wayne County - Penn. Lower Falls of the Wallenpaupack, fro...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodward Avenue, the shopping center of industrial Detroit

Woodward Avenue, the shopping center of industrial Detroit

Picryl description: Public domain image of a stereoscopic card from Boston Public Library, free to use, no copyright restrictions photograph.

Wayne County Building, Detroit, Mich

Wayne County Building, Detroit, Mich

"274-T" on negative. Cadillac Square. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072780. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Randolph Street corridor, second floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Randolph Street corridor, second floor, Wayne County Building, Detroit

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Fort & Third Streets, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Fort Street Presbyterian Church, Fort & Third Streets, Detroit, Wayne ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan

Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage YMCA postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

St. John's Episcopal Church, Woodward Avenue & Vernor Highway, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

St. John's Episcopal Church, Woodward Avenue & Vernor Highway, Detroit...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

General Motors Building, New Center District, Detroit, Mich.

General Motors Building, New Center District, Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Michigan postcard.

Chimpanzee Theatre in Zoological Park, Detroit, Mich.

Chimpanzee Theatre in Zoological Park, Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Michigan postcard.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. An x-ray tube.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Comparison of the standard x-ray film holder and the 4x5 film holder used in the x-ray camera

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Detroit, Michigan. Group of models with elaborate coiffures at a hair styling show

Detroit, Michigan. Group of models with elaborate coiffures at a hair ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Looking over slum houses. These are conditions under which families originally lived before moving to the Sojourner Truth housing project

Detroit, Michigan. Looking over slum houses. These are conditions unde...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Water pouring onto coke

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Negro girl putting up her hair

Detroit, Michigan. Negro girl putting up her hair

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Church in the Negro section

Detroit, Michigan. Church in the Negro section

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit-Cleveland baseball game

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit-Cleveland baseball game

Additional information on caption card: Copied from a Kodachrome negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washingto... More

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. General view showing huge stockpiles of coal and iron ore

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Detroit, Michigan. Fitting a dress at Saks Fifth Avenue store following a fashion show presented by the Chrysler Girls' Club of the Chrysler Corporation

Detroit, Michigan. Fitting a dress at Saks Fifth Avenue store followin...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Typical downtown Detroit section

Detroit, Michigan. Typical downtown Detroit section

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. A haulaway loaded with army trucks

Detroit, Michigan. A haulaway loaded with army trucks

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Packaging blood plasma in metal containers

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. P...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Complete reduction gear housing assembly

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard moto...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Adams House, Liberty Avenue, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Adams House, Liberty Avenue, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Significance: This handsome Greek Revival-style house, with unusual segmentally arched dormers, was built between ca. 1830 and 1843. Survey number: HABS IN-111

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Detroit Edison Hart Substation, 11736 East Vernor, Detroit, Wayne Coun...

Significance: The Detroit Edison Hart Substation is typical of the kind of electrical substations built for the Detroit Edison Company in the early 20th century to step down (reduce) high voltage incoming elect... More

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Grand Riviera Theatre, 9222 Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County,...

Significance: The Grand Riviera is a representative example of a large neighborhood moving picture theatre of the mid-1920s. The octagonal corner entrance tower is a distinctive feature of the exterior, and th... More

A black and white drawing of a map. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a map. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company P...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a parking garage. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a parking garage. Dodge Brothers Motor Car ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train going down a track. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train going down a track. Dodge Brothers ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of men working in a factory. Dodge Brothers Mo...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A drawing of a plan of a house. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A drawing of a plan of a house. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Making an x-ray exposure by photographing the fluorescent screen

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of hospital laboratory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Back of the x-ray camera

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-built amphibian reconnaissance car, carrying soldiers equipped for combat duty takes to the water in special tests staged recently in the Detroit area. This picture shows how the new transportation arm propelling itself as a boat to the opposite shore. The boat steers in the water the same as on land

Sea jeeps. The Army's most flexible new machine of the war, a Ford-bui...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture ... More

Sea jeeps. This picture shows the Ford amphibian reconnaissance car in test at the Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant and in the Huron River. The photo shows tests of the land-water cars in the Rouge River slip

Sea jeeps. This picture shows the Ford amphibian reconnaissance car in...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Ford photo from OWI. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; U... More

Detroit, Michigan. Charles Wilson of the General Motors Corporation with a Navy man and an unknown manufacturer at an early meeting of the Automobile Council for War Production

Detroit, Michigan. Charles Wilson of the General Motors Corporation wi...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn Michigan. Here radically new techniques of mass production have been developed and put in use. Machine tools and dies produced at this plant themselves make mass production easier and more rapid in other factories throughout the country. The building covers 8 12 acres; employs 4,500 skilled workers; equipped with 3 million dollars worth of machinery. Many machinists are being trained for the Navy, here by mechanics, tool and die makers

Interior of the tool and ie building, Ford River Rouge plant, Dearborn...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Auto graveyard. A Detroit auto graveyard. Junked autos and trucks to be shipped to scrapyards and then to the Great Lakes Steel Plant

Auto graveyard. A Detroit auto graveyard. Junked autos and trucks to b...

Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Inform... More

Laundry room in Oak Grove trailer park. This park on the edge of Detroit, Michigan is occupied mainly by defense workers

Laundry room in Oak Grove trailer park. This park on the edge of Detro...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign on Sam's Cut Rate Inc., the largest cut rate store in Detroit, Michigan

Sign on Sam's Cut Rate Inc., the largest cut rate store in Detroit, Mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. An operation at the Cadillac motor car division of General Motors Corporation (?) showing a jig for holding six parts instead of two, as suggested by a worker so as to reduce handling time

Detroit, Michigan. An operation at the Cadillac motor car division of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving the plant of the Ford Motor Company where his son is employed as an expert tool and die maker and he is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division. They drive twenty-five miles to and from work in their Ford car

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. Ford workers carrying American flag and union banners in the Labor Day parade

Detroit, Michigan. Ford workers carrying American flag and union banne...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Vol. 6, 1910 - Jan 1951. 116 Sheet(s). 011. Key map to edition.

Dymaxion House, 2900 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Dymaxion House, 2900 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1344 Survey number: HABS MI-438

Poletown Historic District, Chene Street Commercial District, Chene Street between Interstate 94 & Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Poletown Historic District, Chene Street Commercial District, Chene St...

Significance: The Chene Street Commercial District achieves its significance from its role as an early Polish immigrant community in Detroit. Polish settlement along the street began in the 1860's and was grea... More

A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of an industrial area. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of an industrial area. Dodge Brothers Motor Ca...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train yard. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train yard. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white map of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white map of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of people in a car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of people in a car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - New York - Wayne County - Palmyra - ED 59-35, ED 59-36, ED 59-37, ED 59-38

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - New York - Wayne County - Palm...

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - New York - Wayne County

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - North Carolina - Wayne County - Goldsboro - ED 96-13 - ED 96-24

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - North Carolina - Wayne County ...

1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - North Carolina - Wayne County

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near Detroit, putting the tracks on one of the giant M-3 tanks. These rolling arsenals weigh twenty-eight tons, are capable of speeds over twenty-five miles an hour and are equipped with 75 mm. field artillery gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as four mounted machine guns and various unmounted arms its crew may carry. The tanks are powered by 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engines

Chrysler tank arsenal. Workers in the huge tank Chrysler arsenal near ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Piles nearly to the roof and covering a huge area of floor space is the big stock of accessories for army truck engines, such as air cleaners, oil filters, fan belts, and so forth

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Piles nearly to the roof and covering ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank gets a seventy-five mile test run over all sorts of rough terrain. The proving ground adjoins the huge Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit where these twenty-eight ton behemoths are produced

Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank ge...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, Michigan. This wall was built in August 1941, to separate the Negro section from a white housing development going up on the other side

Negro children standing in front of half mile concrete wall, Detroit, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of women. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of women. Office of War Information...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Detroit, Michigan. Copy writer in a large advertising agency

Detroit, Michigan. Copy writer in a large advertising agency

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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