Download or read book Detroit s Historic Water Works Park written by Michael Daisy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a pictorial history of the water treatment plant's public park that became a popular tourist attraction from the late-nineteenth century to the early 1970s.
Download or read book Detroit Water Works written by Detroit (Mich.). Board of Water Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Industries of Detroit Historical Descriptive and Statistical written by John William Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detroit s Historic Hotels and Restaurants written by Patricia Ibbotson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroits population grew rapidly after the beginning of the 20th century due to the growth of the automobile and other industries, and the city became a tourist and convention center. Detroit was in its heyday in the 1920s when it was the fourth-largest city in the United States. Some of Detroits larger hotels were architectural masterpieces, nationally known, and were the center of social activities. Others were lesser-known second-class hotels now largely forgotten. Detroit restaurants ranged from the self-serve to the elegant. These hotels and restaurants, many of which are gone now, are preserved in nearly 200 vintage postcards, allowing the reader to take a trip down memory lane.
Download or read book Annual Report Water and Sewerage Dept written by Detroit (Mich.) Water and Sewerage Dept and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Detroit and Michigan written by Silas Farmer and published by Detroit : Farmer. This book was released on 1884 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Detroit and Wayne County and Early Michigan written by Silas Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greetings from Detroit written by Dan Austin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of Detroit through postcards. Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long-lost landmarks, this book pairs vintage views with rich stories from the Motor City’s yesteryear. In the era before cameras became commonplace, postcard shops were everywhere—allowing folks to send snapshots of their travels to friends and family, or to take home as mementos. Many of these old postcards are now sought-after collectibles today, offering a rare look back at a time of tremendous growth and change across Detroit during the first half of the twentieth century. Divided into six sections, Greetings from Detroit showcases the changing times and interests of the city—highlighting some of the distinct neighborhoods, including Midtown, southwest Detroit, and the downtown area. A portion of the book is devoted to Detroit’s parks, with special interest in Belle Isle, Palmer Park, Clark Park, and Water Works Park. The book also shines a light on the majestic steamers that often dotted the Detroit River. Greetings from Detroit gathers some of the best, most illustrative postcards in one place and—for the first time, in full color—frames them alongside meticulously researched writing, offering context and stories behind each image. It is a history book. It is a picture book. It is a window into the history of Detroit. As the city grows and changes, there is value in observing a Detroit that is frozen in time. This beautiful collection would make an excellent conversation piece in the home of any local history aficionado.
Download or read book History of Detroit written by Paul Leake and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxic Debt written by Josiah Rector and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, environmentally unregulated industrial capitalism produced outsized environmental risks for poor and working-class Detroiters, made all the worse for African Americans by housing and job discrimination. Then as the auto industry abandoned Detroit, the banking and real estate industries turned those risks into disasters with predatory loans to African American homebuyers, and to an increasingly indebted city government. Following years of cuts in welfare assistance to poor families and a devastating subprime mortgage meltdown, the state of Michigan used municipal debt to justify suspending democracy in majority-Black cities. In Detroit and Flint, austerity policies imposed under emergency financial management deprived hundreds of thousands of people of clean water, with lethal consequences that most recently exacerbated the spread of COVID-19. Toxic Debt is not only a book about racism, capitalism, and the making of these environmental disasters. It is also a history of Detroit's environmental justice movement, which emerged from over a century of battles over public health in the city and involved radical auto workers, ecofeminists, and working-class women fighting for clean water. Linking the histories of urban political economy, the environment, and social movements, Toxic Debt lucidly narrates the story of debt, environmental disaster, and resistance in Detroit.
Download or read book A People s History of Detroit written by Mark Jay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police raids. In A People's History of Detroit, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present, embedding Motown's history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit's past, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions, to deindustrialization and the city's recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit's history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism's mandates.
Download or read book Historical Collections written by Michigan State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan Historical Collections written by Michigan Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Collections Made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan written by Michigan Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Detroit written by Karen Dybis and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit is known for its automotive heritage, the Motown sound, and American's first mile of concrete highway. But this cityon the river has more than three hundred years of history, and most of it iseasy to experience if you know where to look. There's the Michigan Theatre, theornate movie house turned parking garage with a grand stage looming over itscars. Picturesque Alfred Brush Ford Park once stored nuclear missiles among itsplaygrounds and fishing spots. Then there are incredible landmarks like Detroit'smassive salt mines and a monument to urban graffiti known as the Dequindre Cutas well as the world's oldest operating jazz club. Secret Detroit explores thisgreat American city to investigate everything that is odd, unexpected, andextraordinary. Detroit is the kind of city you need to see and experience tounderstand why locals brag about being from the Motor City. Full of stories andtall tales, this book is a must-have for urban explorers, history buffs, andtravelers of all experience levels
Download or read book Water Works Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Days in Detroit written by Friend Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
