Cass Avenue entrance, Detroit Public Library
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Description
View of the Cass Avenue entrance of the Detroit Public Library, showing mosaic mural designed by Millard Sheets. Inscribed over entrance: "1865, Detroit Public Library, 1963." Printed on back: "The Detroit Main Library, Cass Avenue entrance (between W. Kirby and Putnam), Detroit, Michigan. 'Like a river flowing through the ages uniting distant men, knowledge and thought into a community of ideas of world and of time is the accumulated record of mankind ... ' Quotation from the richly colored glass mosaic mural designed by Millard Sheets. [copyright] Allen Stross, your photographer. Hiawatha Card of Detroit, P.O. Box 488, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197. Made by Dexter Press Inc. West Nyack, New York."
Details
- Creator:
- Stross, Allen
- Resource ID:
- bh009442
- Subject:
- Detroit Public Library
- Mosaics--Michigan--Detroit
- Sheets, Millard, 1907-1989
- Library buildings--Michigan--Detroit
- Public libraries--Michigan--Detroit
- Postcards
- Publisher:
- Hiawatha Card of Detroit
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 postcard : col. ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Libraries-Detroit Public-Main
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.