Iconic Images of Detroit's Past: History Through the Lens of The Detroit News

Germany’s Graf Zeppelin, the most successful dirigible ever built, flies over Detroit on October 26, 1933. Built in 1928, it would fly for more than a million miles in nine years, carrying passengers, freight and mail all over the world and fueling a craze for airships. Courtesy The Detroit News

A worker walks on a suspension cable of the Ambassador Bridge high above the Detroit River. Courtesy The Detroit News

Henry Ford (right) and driver Barney Oldfield pose with the 999, an early race car developed by Ford and his team, in 1901. Photo taken by C.R. Brooks. Courtesy The Detroit News

Young ladies relax on the Belle Isle Bathing Beach. Courtesy The Detroit News

A room full of female workers weld machine parts at the Lincoln Motor Company during World War I. The automotive factories in Detroit supplied munitions, engines and vehicles for the war, and women were recruited to fill these jobs as men joined the armed services. Courtesy The Detroit News

The cupola of Old City Hall at Woodward and Michigan Avenues rises above the bustling streets below. At right a billboard encourages people to buy Liberty Bonds to support the war. Courtesy The Detroit News

A young munitions worker at the Maxwell Motor Company holds a shell during World War I. Courtesy The Detroit News

Families watch and weep at the Michigan Central Station as soldiers leave during World War I. Courtesy The Detroit News

Don’t let the smiles fool you—Babe Ruth (left) and Tigers star Ty Cobb didn’t like each other. Cobb always resented the way the Detroit fans warmed up to the Babe whenever he performed there. While the fans hoped that Ruth would hit one of his legendary tape-measure home runs, Cobb would do a slow burn as he saw his reputation as the game’s dominant player slip away. Courtesy The Detroit News

Twelve weeks after his celebrated New York-to-Paris solo flight in 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a stop in Detroit, where thousands turned out to celebrate the city’s favorite son. The aviator, who was born in Detroit, was accompanied by his mother Evangeline. Courtesy The Detroit News

Downtown Detroit from the First National Bank Building in June 1934. The massive Majestic Building, built in 1896, overlooks Woodward Avenue, diagonally across from the Michigan Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, erected in 1867. Courtesy The Detroit News

Oldsmobile exhibit at the 1939 Detroit Auto Show. Courtesy The Detroit News

A crowd outside the Michigan Theater in 1932, which featured the vaudeville stars George Burns and Gracie Allen. Courtesy The Detroit News

A farmer displays his potatoes and cabbages at Eastern Market in the early twentieth century. Eastern Market opened at its current location in 1891. Courtesy The Detroit News

Construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel was a huge project, going under the Detroit River to connect Detroit with Windsor. It opened in 1910 and is still in use today. Courtesy The Detroit News

Blanche Stuart Scott of Rochester, New York, was the first woman to pilot an airplane in public in the United States. She flew for the Curtiss Exhibition Team in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 23, 1910. The next day, she married publicist Harry B. Tuttle in Detroit. Earlier that year, she had earned fame by driving an automobile from New York City to San Francisco. Courtesy The Detroit News

At 3 a.m. Detroit time on November 11, 1918, the imperial German army radioed to the world that it had signed the Allied unconditional terms of surrender. Whistles, sirens, and church bells proclaimed the joyous word to the sleeping city, and police patrols and fire trucks raced through the streets, sirens shrieking, carrying the good news. Within hours, the city of Detroit would become a vast, cheering throng. Courtesy The Detroit News

Motorists enjoy a drive on the back roads of Belle Isle on a winter day. Courtesy The Detroit News

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Detroit’s early years through award-winning historic photos

Name: Iconic Images of Detroit's Past: History Through the Lens of The Detroit News
Brand: The Detroit News (Detroit, MI)
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Announcing a new book that showcases Detroit in the late 1800s through the 1930s with award-winning photojournalism of The Detroit News. From WWI to the birth of the auto industry, the Great Depression to celebrations, Prohibition to presidential visits, and more, this coffee-table book is full of dynamic photos of the past that is sure to delight.

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Title: Iconic Images of Detroit's Past: History Through the Lens of The Detroit News
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ISBN: 9781597259958
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Title: Iconic Images of Detroit's Past: History Through the Lens of The Detroit News
Hardcover, limited edition
ISBN: 9781597259958
160 pages
Published by Pediment Publishing
Printed in North America
Available now

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Detroit’s early years through award-winning historic photos

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