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📹 Another batch of videos will hit our Detroit Video History Archive Youtube page in the next few... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2Jemybi


📷 During World War I, the American Red Cross organized the Canteen Services, an operation staffed by... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2JdzO-B


📷 Trade cards generally featured eye-catching art that would draw attention to the often-unrelated... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2JUs5jJ


📷 In this photo from the 1890s, a young woman, identified only as Norma, rides her bicycle.  A note on... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2JJ0_QF


📹 On March 6, 1896, Charles Brady King test drove his design for a horseless carriage along Detroit’s... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2JDrTkH


📷 Welcome to John’s House of Jazz.  This 1973 photo from our Documenting Detroit collection was taken... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2IoPhFG


📷 On January 27 1939, Detroit’s own “Bronze Bomber” Joe Louis faced off against his friend and rival... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2IZFqt7


📷 This Sanders promotional photo dates from 1928. Find the rest of this series of photos as part of our... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2IRxu7v


📷 While segregation kept many avenues closed to African American entrepreneurs in the late 1800s and... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2ICe0bs


📷 With the year of the Rooster underway, it seemed like a good time to share this 1929 cartoon about... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2HtgMFX


📷 On April 3rd, 1969–a day shy of the one-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2HKdxwV


📷 The Hotel Wolverine’s Tropics Cocktail Lounge, pictured here on a postcard, was one of Detroit’s many... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2GpXvpI


📷 A group of Detroit United Railway streetcars gathered in a yard are shown in this 1921 photo.  The... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2Gk1bQL


📷 This small commemorative News Year’s ribbon from 1881 was donated to the Detroit Historical Society... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2GZB8o8


📹 City of Detroit workers wish you happy holidays in these two c. 1984 public service announcements. ... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2GBI0kz


📷 Since our recent post about William Bushnell Stout’s Pullman Railplane was so popular, here’s a 1934... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2G8yid4


📷 In the late 1980s, Detroit-based department store Crowley’s introduced Kris Mouse.  The stuffed... tmblr.co/ZGOE3r2G6hWI5


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