• Posts Tagged ‘city bird’

    Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company

    by  • January 6, 2010 • History • 0 Comments

    Have you ever seen those old postcards — I tend to find them crammed in shoeboxes at antique stores — with luridly hued landscapes or blush-tinted street scenes and historical landmarks — photographs that almost look like rigid little paintings? Dam Square, Amsterdam. Detroit Publishing Company, c. 1900 There’s a good chance they were...

    Read more →

    Detroit History Tour, Part II: Grand Circus Park

    by  • December 17, 2009 • History • 7 Comments

    On our last Detroit history tour — following an itinerary from the 1933 schoolbook History of Detroit for Young People — your heroes visited Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square and points west of Woodward that we just sort of aimlessly happened upon. Yesterday, aimlessly driving up and down Woodward looking for something to do...

    Read more →