  Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 |
Does anyone know where I can purchase old black and white photos of Detroit in the 40 and 50 or any website where they have such pictures? | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 157 Registered: 08-2006 |
I believe the Detroit News and Free Press sell pictures through their website. Or you can check out the Wayne State library system which maintains a whole database from the Detroit News collection. I'm not sure what their policy is though. All of their pictures are watermarked but its a great resource. I'm sure you can call someone there. http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/ i/image/image-idx?c=vmc;page=index | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 158 Registered: 08-2006 |
By the way, welcome to forum. | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks I am not new to the formus I am just new to posting. I am a huge avid lover of Detroit I hope to one day be able to live in Downtown in an Apartment or a loft. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 1286 Registered: 11-2003 |
I have found some in "antique" stores, second hand stores, etc | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2006 |
also is there a place where I can purchase b/w old photos of downtown detroit? | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2006 |
antique stores where? | ||
Spartacus Member Username: Spartacus Post Number: 153 Registered: 07-2005 |
Check out the Burton collection at the Detroit Public Library. They have an enormous collection of historic Detroit pictures. Unfortunately, I believe that you now have to pay a fee to access the collection (it was free until about 2 years ago). There is a card catalog system. The pictures are organized into folders. Tell the librarian what you want and they will have someone find the file in the vault. I know that they have files by street, by building, by person, and by business. For example, you can find a folder of pictures of the Hudson's building. The folder will contain dozens of pictures of the Hudsons building both inside and out. If you want a copy of any picture that you see let the librarian know and they will arrange to have it copied. Sometimes there are slides or negatives available, but usually they have to have someone come in and take a picture of the picture. The prices are fairly reasonable, but it may be hard to blow a picture up too much without the negative. I have four pictures on the wall of my home from this collection: 1) a picture of Saints Peter and Paul Church circa 1920 (I was married there and it was a wedding gift for my wife); 2) a picture of the Jefferson Woodward intersection circa 1915; 3) Campus Martius in the 1950's; and 4) the Fisher building from the 40's (there is a Frankenmouth Beer truck in the foreground) Good Luck! | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thank you so much I am looking for B/w photos of Woodward ave looking twords Hudsons etc I also cannot seem to find pics of what Winkelmans, Crowleys, of Saks Fifth Avenue use to look like downtown | ||
Wash_man Member Username: Wash_man Post Number: 160 Registered: 05-2006 |
Check ebay. "Detroit photos". There are some there, but from the '20s. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1132 Registered: 01-2004 |
John King sells old Detroit items, there a whole section of stuff. Photos too. There are companies that sell reprints of Library of Congress photos on eBay. | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 1292 Registered: 11-2003 |
I bought some at the antique/second hand store on Cass by Birdtown. There is a similar store on mack around Devonshire, one on 8 Mile by Schonherr. | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 377 Registered: 06-2005 |
Designerguy, welcome to posting on the forum. BTW, Saks was not located downtown. It was in the New Center neighborhood in the Albert Kahn Building, kitty-corner to the Fisher Building. | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2006 |
yeah still i'd love to see what it looked like and the same with the Crowleys | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 602 Registered: 11-2005 |
Books with old pics: http://www.amazon.com/Detroit- Then-Now-Thunder-Bay/dp/157145 6899/sr=8-1/qid=1162336429/ref =pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9286778-85440 09?ie=UTF8&s=books http://www.amazon.com/Detroit- 1930-1969-Images-America/dp/07 38501506/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/ 002-9286778-8544009 | ||
Designerguy24 Member Username: Designerguy24 Post Number: 11 Registered: 10-2006 |
I've seen both of those books I dont recall anything about Saks Fifth Avenue in there | ||
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria Post Number: 1644 Registered: 02-2006 |
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Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 372 Registered: 12-2005 |
1880-1920 photos of places in the eastern US, including Detroit: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/de troit/dethome.html "Ookpik" might possibly have some downtown Detroit images for sale in his collection of 1940's Michigan negatives: http://ookpiksnegz.blogspot.co m/ (Message edited by Mikeg on November 12, 2006) | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 3648 Registered: 10-2003 |
What I would like to do is get some photos that are fairly large for wall-hanging. Any tips? | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 382 Registered: 06-2005 |
Patrick, have you considered old postcards? While they are not large, if they are nicely (not cheaply) matted and framed, they can have a large impact. A grouping could have a theme such as Belle Isle, downtown, Detroit hotels, Grand Circus Park, and so on. |
