Aerial view of Detroit (Wayne County), Michigan. The Wayne County Building, located at 600 Randolph Street, is built in the English Baroque style, with a blend of Beaux-Arts and neo-classical elements. The five story building has a four tiered tower with columns, sculpture, and a dome with a finial. The building has balustrades, a two story Corinthian portico with a carved pediment and massive sculptures by Massey Rhind that decorate the roof and tower. A park is nearby. Shows commercial buildings, a church, hotels, factories, smokestacks, the port and large boats on the river. Windsor, Ontario, Canada, is across the river. Signs read: "Famous Onyx Paints" "The Detroit Tribune" "Michigan Rug Co." "Farrand, Williams & Clark Wholesale Drug Sts." and "Avenue Theatre Vaudeville." Pedestrians, street railroad cars, automobiles and horse-drawn wagons and buggies are in the streets.
Date
[between 1900 and 1910?]
Notes
Accession number: 86.200.3578; Attribution to Jackson based on the glass negative's inclusion in the History Colorado William Henry Jackson Collection.; History Colorado.; Etched in glass plate: 010930 - for lantern slides.; Photograph of a photographic print.; Title from negative sleeve.; R7200097083
