The Detroit pictured here has been washed away in a tide of technological and social change more rapid, perhaps, than any in human history. Click on the photo at right, read the text below, and witness the transformation of Campus Martius from grand civic plaza to post-Industrial urban backwater.

Index of completed pages:

• 1906 Air Quality;
• Arc Lighting Tower;
• Bagley Fountain;
• John J. Bagley Statue;
• Birds-eye Panorama of the City.
• Old City Hall;
• County Building Views.
• Hammond Building;
• Horses;
• Horsecars;
• Northbound Interurban Car;
• Lafayette & Michigan
• Majestic Building
• Merrill Fountain;
• Pedestrians;
  • S.J. Bockstanz
  • Samuel T. Douglas
  • Edward T. Nowak
• Penobscot Building
• Ponchartrain Hotel;
• The Retail District;
• Soldiers and Sailors Monument;
• Electric Streetcars;
• Vantage Point - where the panorama photographers stood.

The text in the frame below gives a brief history; unless you're the type that browses magazines back to front, read it first.

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The black and white photographs are from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, a collection of turn-of-the century images. According to the LOC, I am violating no known copyright by using the images here.