Main Library under construction
Grab
Description
View from inside of framework of Main Library, Detroit Public Library during construction, showing site of stack room. Sawhorses and length of pipe inside structure. Printed on front: "No. 19. Taken Dec-10-17. Detroit Public Library bldg. Stack room ground floor. Cass Gilbert, architect. Geo. A. Fuller Co., builders." Stamped on back: "Charles R. Messinger, commercial photographer, 1646 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich., Market 6298."
Details
- Creator:
- Messinger, Charles R.
- Resource ID:
- bh006252
- Subject:
- Detroit Public Library
- Library buildings--Michigan--Detroit--Design and construction
- Structural frames
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1917-12-10
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on fabric ; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Libraries-DPL-Main-Construction
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

