Hotel Erichsen
Lithograph depicting the Hotel Erichsen. Streetcar, horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians in foreground. Printed on front: "Hotel Erichsen, 148 & 150 Randolph Str., Detroit, Mich. The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Hotel Erichsen at Randolph & Fort NE in 1868. This is one of the first lithographs made by the Calvert Co. The Hotel was run by Claus D. Erichsen. Composition of picture shows great variety of dress of period, including one-lunged bustles. Distance at extreme right and two-lunged foreground at right. The ladies then swept the streets with their skirts and carried home the accumulation. Shorter walking skirts were only worn by the hard-boiled types of women. Riding habits were an embarassment to the horse which sometimes stepped on them. Vehicles show street car, omnibus, private carriage hack and two types of express wagon. Gas street lamp at corner. Old fashioned trunk and valise on omnibus. Plug hats were the rule instead of the exception. At the extreme right foreground a former slave turned whitewash artist. Nearby an Indian with bow and arrows with a string of whitefish for sale. His squaw with a pappoose [sic] on her back peddles bead moccasins with porcupine quill ornament. At extreme left a wooden Indian offering cigars, carved by Julius Melchers, Detroit's leading sculptor, who also carved statues on the City Hall. Hotel equipped with all the luxuries and conveniences of the time -- barroom, dining room, billiard room, ladies entrance and travellers' sample room. Original lithograph printed on colors. Old Erichsen Hotel diagonally across street from site of Wayne Count building. Evidently all Detroiters were people of leisure for where is the regiment in overalls and the tin pail brigade which helped to put Detroit on the map? But one thing is as it used to be. Streetcars and busses are still jammed. Public hack has a picture of Pharaoh's Horses on its rear."
- Creator:
- Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.)
- Resource ID:
- bh009453
- Subject:
- Hotels--Michigan--Detroit
- Lithography
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 lithograph : col. ; 18.75 x 22.25 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Content Note:
- LD/Hotels-Erichsen
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.