Building at corner of Russell and Catherine
Grab
Description
View of Italianate brick building at the corner of Russell and Catherine; men in horse-drawn wagons; men and a boy stand outside storefront. Sign on building: "Groceries & provisions." Label on back: "The building in the picture was on the north east corner of what was then Catherine Street and Russell. Catherine was afterwards changed to Madison. One of the men in the picture was my grandfather Frank Drouillard Walker. Grandpa'a house was about one hundred feet from that corner at 185 Catherine Street. I do not know the photographer nor the date of the picture. My grandparents were married in 1876 and lived at the Catherine Street address until about 1918, Ethel Yabroff, 9-13-1959."
Details
- Resource ID:
- DPA5186
- Subject:
- Streets--Michigan--Detroit
- Grocery trade--Michigan--Detroit
- Albumen prints
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on mat board ; image 9 x 7.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- LD/Streets-Russell & Catherine (later Monroe St.)
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

