Horticultural Building and Aquarium on Belle Isle
View of Horticultural Building and Aquarium on Belle Isle. Glass-paned building with dome is attached to aquarium building; pond with water lilies in foreground. Printed on front: "Horticultural Building and Aquarium, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich., 1573." Metropolitan Metrocraft trademark printed on back. Handwritten on back: "Hello, [undecipherable] and Walter, July 3, 1944. Dear friends, just a word to let you know I am still breathing, well here I am back in Michigan again am working every day now got a good job. If I don't take the rambling blues but you know I get them sometimes and they are bad. Well wishing you all the best of luck will see you about cold weather [undecipherable]. Write me if there is any news. My address. 3634 3th St. Wyandotte, Mich. From Robt." Card is postmarked July 4, 1944.
- Resource ID:
- bh010911
- Subject:
- Belle Isle Park (Detroit, Mich.)
- Conservatories--Michigan--Detroit
- Greenhouses--Michigan--Detroit
- Aquariums, Public--Michigan--Detroit
- Ponds--Michigan--Detroit
- Water lilies--Michigan--Detroit
- Postcards
- Publisher:
- Metropolitan Metrocraft
- Date:
- c.1944
- Format:
- 1 postcard : col. ; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Parks-Belle Isle-Conservatory
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.