Ulysses S. Grant house decorated in mourning
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Description
Clapboard house behind picket fence, both draped with bunting and rosettes. Portrait labeled "Gen. U.S. Grant" in center; large "G" over shuttered window; sign reading "His home 1850" on shuttered window. Trees and other houses visible, wooden sidewalk. Handwritten on card back: "The residence of the late Gen. U.S. Grant, in 1849, when he first 'kept house,' no. 253 Fort Street East, Detroit, Mich. Draped in his memory by his veteran comrades of the war of 1861. Photo by The Detroit Viewing Company. (This information copied from a printed slip which came loose and torn when this picture was cleaned. C.H.)"
Details
- Creator:
- Detroit Viewing Company
- Resource ID:
- DPA2687
- Subject:
- Wooden-frame houses--Michigan--Detroit
- Historic buildings--Michigan--Detroit
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Homes and haunts--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Albumen prints
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- c.1885
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard ; 9.5 x 11 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Historic houses-Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.