Historic Photos of Detroit

by Mary J. Wallace (Text by)

Overview

Detroit is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Detroit has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Detroit has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.

Historic Photos of Detroit captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Detroit as pioneer of the motor vehicle to becoming the main hub for World War munitions, Historic Photos of Detroit follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history.

This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of hundreds of historic photographs. Published in striking black and white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Looking for more history of Detroit? Check out the companion title Historic Photos of Detroit in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618586230
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Historic Photos
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	33 MB
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About the Author

Mary J. Wallace has a bachelors degree in fine art and a masters degree in history, as well as a certificate in archival administration. She has been an audiovisual archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University for more than six years. Besides her extensive audiovisual reference work, she designs and edits all of the library's publications. She has authored photographic articles for Michigan History magazine and was recently the curator of an exhibit on the Detroit Lions football history.
Mary and her husband, Jim, have two daughters, Megan and Lily. They live in Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

Editorial Reviews

Historic Photos of Detroit offered enlightening insights into the Motor City as it rose from an outpost on the frontier to an automobile and military manufacturing powerhouse to the first stages of racial tensions that affect the city to the present time. The photos are all black and white, and they end in the 1960s, before things took a serious slide. You do get to feeling wistful when you realize that old photos of Detroit and Chicago look so similar, and yet today the cities have drifted apart. All in all, the book provided a lot of food for thought and conversation. It will occupy a visible place in our home as a potent history lesson.

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Mary J. Wallace's "Historic Photos of Detroit" is a great collection of images spanning from the 1860's to the 1960's. As a native Detroiter, whose father was born, raised and worked in Detroit most of his life, I found myself intensely studying each of the photos. The photos from the 1940's on were of particular interest as I would search the photo's for familiar landmarks and imagine what it may have been like to be my father playing and working on those very streets and wondering if he or other family members might have even been in a few pictures. At 205 pages with hundreds of historic photos, this book is the perfect addition to any native Detroiters personal collection and is sure to bring back memories of days gone by...kudos to Mary J. Wallace and Turner Publishing!

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