Medical Building Ann Arbor, Mich.

First medical building, built 1850, addition in 1864, used until West Medical was completed in 1903. Fire in 1911 destroyed west half, remainder, including portico, razed in 1914. View from the Southeast.

Central Group of Buildings From Corn Field

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Orchard at Main Buildings

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Farm Buildings in Winter

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Farm buildings

Saline Valley Farms was an experiment in cooperative farming and living begun in 1932 by Harold S. Gray.

Howell, Mich. street scene

verso: Things reached a fever pitch in 1915 as the Wolverine Paved Way was nearing completion. A brick road from Detroit to Lansing would be finished and the town's main street would finally be paved. In this photograph autos had started from Lansing and picked up others in all the small towns on the way to Howell for the big celebration. As you can see, they didn't worry about parking. They stopped their cars in the street and left them. Before Prohibition, Howell was known as the fun city of Southern Michigan, and there is said to have been 13 bars in the main four blocks of town. All the travelling men made it a point to stay over in Howell whenever possible. It was said that you could not fall down on the main street of town without falling into the doorway of a bar. This probably explains the empty cars after a long dusty trip. Notice, too, that about half the cars are still right hand drive.

View of Detroit Observatory grounds from southeast, including Student Observatory, March 31, 1888

(attributed to Allen Lysander Colton)