1965, Detroit Library, Exterior Architectural Details

 

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Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB9439] Situated at Gratiot Avenue and Farmer Street, was built in 1875 and contains 200,000 volumes. It is conducted by a board, appointed by the Board of Education. [from the back of the card]

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Main Library, Cass Avenue Facade, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB9015] - The Detroit Public Library with its 28 branch libraries and more than 3 million books, maps and manuscripts is one of the great public libraries of the world. Its Main Library, in the Cultural Center, with fronts on Woodward Avenue and Cass Avenue, is a show-placed of Detroit. [From the back of the card]

1951 Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

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1909 Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB6612] - The state constitution adopted in 1835 contained a provision that all fines and penalties collected in criminal cases should be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of public libraries. On January 8, 1842, the board of school inspectors of the City of Detroit adopted a resolution to the effect: "That an order be drawn on the county treasurer for the proportion due the Township of Detroit of the moneys paid into the county treasury as equivalents for exemptions from military fines, and for the clear proceeds of all fines for breaches of the penal laws; and in case the treasurer refuses to pay, that the city attorney, or some other proper person, be requested to apply to the present Supreme Court for a mandamus to compel the treasurer to pay the same." (The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, Volume 5 (Google eBook))

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Detroit Public Library Video

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Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB6098] - Looking north from Hotel Webster Hall, Cass Ave. at Putnam. Note the surrounding buildings: Fisher Building; General Motors Building; Belcrest Apartments; Art Center Apartments; Wardell Apartments; and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

1912 Public Library Square, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB2520] Special Online Collection Drawing Power: An Exhibit of Motor City Ad Art in the the Age of Muscle and Chrome: A web-based version of an exhibit at the National Automotive History Collection featuring original works of advertising art created by Detroit advertising studios during their height of creativity. Click here for a super-fun online exhibition!

1909 Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

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Special Event Pride and Passion, The African-American Baseball Experience
Main Library - 5201 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202 July 8th to August 18th, 2011

Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life.

The traveling exhibition is based on an exhibition of the same name on permanent display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. [More information including program descriptions]

Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

[LIB671] Click on the image to order a reproduction of this postcard!

1948 Library, Detroit, Michigan

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c1910 Public Library, Detroit, MI

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The Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, Michigan

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"Houses books, pamphlets, maps, pictures, original manuscripts and documents relating to the history of the Great Lakes region from the 16th century to the present."

The Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library began life as the private library of Clarence Monroe Burton. In addition to being a prominent attorney, Mr. Burton was a Detroit historiographer and the founder of the C. M. Burton Abstract Co. Mr. Burton’s original intention was to assemble a collection on the history of Detroit. Realizing that Detroit’s history was inextricably connected to that of Michigan and the Old Northwest and those histories to that of Canada and New France, he assembled a collection that was one of the most important private historical collections in the county.

Over the course of 40 years, Mr. Burton systematically collected original documents and personal papers of prominent citizens of Detroit and Michigan. By 1914 the library contained 30,000 volumes, 40,000 pamphlets and 500,000 unpublished papers. Mr. Burton donated his collection, including the building it was housed in, to the Detroit Public Library in 1915. The collection was moved to the new main library in 1921.

1940s Public Library DETROIT MI

1940s Public Library DETROIT MI

1940s Library DETROIT MICHIGAN MI

Main Library, Detroit, Michigan

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"Like a river flowing through the ages uniting distant man, knowledge and thought into a community of ideas of the world and of time is the accumulated record of mankind..." Quotation from the richly colored glass mosaic mural designed by Millard Sheets.