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Bodies of water Michigan Pictorial works Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Fiction Lakes Michigan Pictorial works Michigan Detroit Michigan Environmental conditions Michigan History, Local Michigan Pictorial works Rivers Michigan Pictorial works Water conservation Michigan Wetlands Michigan Pictorial worksSiepker, Barbara.
Summary: From the Publisher: The story of quintessential lake cottage life is told in this survey of early summer cottages built along the shore of Glen Lake located in north-west lower Michigan and renowned for its natural, pristine beauty. Over 50 Glen Lake historic cottages' interiors and exteriors are documented in 172 duotones and narratives that honor each cottage's lore and memories. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leelanau Press 2008
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: 977.4635 Siepker1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4635 SIE
Rucker, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 RUCArnaud, Michel
Summary: [This book] is a visual essay on the rebuilding and resurgence of the city of Detroit by photographer Michel Arnaud, co-author of Design Brooklyn. In recent years, much of the focus on Detroit has been on the negative stories and images of shuttered, empty buildings-- the emblems of Detroit's financial and physical decline. In contrast, Arnaud aims his lens at the emergent creative enterprises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 ARNBak, Richard
Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAKSummary: Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit's most racially integrated and economically stable neighborhoods, although it is surrounded by evidence of a city in financial distress. Through interviews with and essays by residents;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolis Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633 ThanksDavis, Michael W. R.
Summary: The label "Arsenal of Democracy" was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiter's unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroit's mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 DAVGardiner, William H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mackinac State Historic Parks 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 GARMorrison, Jeff (Jeffrey B.)
Summary: "Guardians of Michigan profiles the extraordinary architectural sculpture found in both the pleasant peninsulas of the Great Lakes State. Author Jeff Morrison spent years exploring Michigans largest cities and smallest towns, using telephoto photography to capture the sculptural details hidden from the naked eye, and researching the beautiful historic architecture he encountered. Organized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 729.09774 MorrisonDunnigan, Brian Leigh.
Summary: "Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of eastern North America, despite its inland location. A vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.434 DUNMorrison, Jeffrey
Summary: Detroit is home to amazing architectural sculpture-a host of gargoyles, grotesques, and other silent guardians that watch over the city from high above its streets and sidewalks, often unnoticed or ignored by the people passing below. Jeff Morrison's Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City documents these incredible features in a city that began as a small frontier fort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 729.5 MORSummary: Nearly twenty years in the making, this volume includes many of Detroit's most well-known churches, like Sainte Anne in Corktown, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Boston-Edison, Saint Florian in Hamtramck, Mariners' Church on the riverfront, Saint Mary's in Greektown, and Central United Methodist Church downtown. The authors have incorporated information from publis resources,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 726.5 DETBurnstein, Scott M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BURBrownstein, Elizabeth Smith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 BROByron, M. Christine
Contents: The Mackinac Straits Region -- Mackinaw City -- Crossing the Straits -- St. Ignace -- Mackinac Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2007
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4923 BRY1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 977.4923 BYR
O'Brien, Jacqueline (Jacqueline Wittenoom)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 941.5 OBRLiesch, Matthew.
Summary: Situated on the south shore of Lake Superior, the Gogebic Iron Range of Michigan and Wisconsin exudes a strong sense of place. During the 1880s, a mining boom lured settlers, investment, and controversy. Investors from Milwaukee, Chicago, and Cleveland hoped to become rich, but many were pulled into scams or poorly managed mines and ended up losing their money. After iron stocks crashed, mining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4983 LIEReyes Taubman, Julia
Summary: Over the past six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman has taken more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out a comprehensive survey of a major American city. Photographing on the ground, in the buildings and by air and water, Reyes Taubman believes that when buildings and landscape are manipulated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Contemporary Art 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 715 REYJohnson, Heidi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.21 JOHLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MIC 977.40 LubbeLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.4009 LUBLubbers, David
Summary: Michigan-based photographer Lubbers combines efforts with environmental advisor and author Dempsey in creating a portrait of the waters of Michigan and their significance to the state's identity. Each of the 79 black and white photographs is accompanied by a short text offering readers historical background to the sites depicted and providing a sense of how precious and fragile this natural...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2011
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Smith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIWertz, Julia
Summary: "Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2017