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Detroit Michgan USA 1916 stock footage and images

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View of banks, church, public park, Belle Isle, busy streets and Bob-Lo steamship SS Columbia leaving dock in Detroit, Michigan

In Detroit Financial District, people in front of First State Bank Building at 751 Griswold at Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan. (The building was designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci, and later housed the Olde Discount Corporation). Interior of First State Bank Building, Detroit. Street view of First National Building under construction at 660 Woodward Avenue in Detroit (for First National Bank and other tenants). Automobile traffic on streets of Detroit. People leave Sweetest Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, located on Russell Street at the corner of East Canfield avenue, in a historic Polish parish. (The neighborhood at the time was predominantely Polish.) In the distance is another Polish parish and Saint Josaphat Church located on East Canfield at the corner of Hastings Street (which is now the I 75 freeway). Heavy traffic on a main boulevard. Children play in playground on swings and slides. People and pigeons in a park. Heavy traffic on a street. Large crowd on shore and others in canoes in water at Belle Isle. Crowd streams through gate at dock to board the steamship ferry "Columbia" of the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company, with sign "Bob-Lo Route" on the side. Boblo Steamship SS Columbia (designed by Frank Kirby) filled with passengers underway on the Detroit River bound for Bob-Lo Island in Ontario Canada.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030156
Film that takes viewer to "dinner at the Statler" Hotel in Detroit, Michigan.

Film taken at the new Statler Hotel in Detroit, Michigan (opened in 1915). The Statler Hotel main dining room Ala Carte menu is shown. A waiter in tuxedo takes orders from wealthy patrons. Glimpse of clams served on half shells. Closeup of a woman in fur coat eating soup. Waiter presenting a poultry entree. The woman eating a large portion. Side dishes of vegetables seen on the table. A different waiter (in white tie) taking order for the next course. Closeup of the woman eating a parfait with a long spoon. Dessert cookies seen in a dish on the table. The table of four all eating parfait, and one woman taking a cookie. One of the men passes the plate of cookies. Wider view of the dining room with many persons being served dinner by formally dressed waiters. The frame rate increases showing much activity quickly in the dining room.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064465
A split screen sequence attempts to create the impression that a ferry collides with a trolley car in Detroit, Michigan

View from side of railroad track as steam locomotive passes pulling a long passenger train at high speed. A freight train passes at the same time in opposite direction on parallel track. Split screen presentation shows automobile traffic, pedestrians, and street cars on Woodward Avenue, in Detroit, and a ferry boat plying a river on the other screen. The ferry boat appears to converge onto the avenue, as if to collide with a trolley car.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058506
Republican Convention of 1916.

Delegates of the Republican Convention of 1916 gathered outside the Congress Hotel while they await the outcome of negotiations between the Progressives and the Republicans. An unknown woman is seen alongside Governor Whitman (right) and Senator Francis Hendricks. Shot of George W. Perkins, Bull Moose leader. Chauncey Depew is also seen. External view of The Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois USA.

Date: 1916
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078388
Travelogue of Mid West regions of America.

A travelogue of Mid West regions of the United States in the mid 1980s. Map highlights Mid West regions. Montage of small images followed by full screen footage. Close up of corn plant stalk and corn field with bright sun behind. Elevated sweeping pan of a farm with corn and wheat fields, barns, and a river behind. Point of view shot in a wheat field at tops of wheat stalks looking far across the field and then focusing on individual wheat stalks. Combine harvester moving in field and harvesting wheat. Next scene shows group of two canoes on a river. A fly fisherman casting with his fly fishing rod and reel into fast moving rapids of a river. A man and a woman hiking; the man helps the woman step over a shallow stream. Two young men playing on a moving water wheel. They stand atop it and try to balance as it spins, and one falls in the water. Flock of white birds ascending from a lake, with a farm and barns in the background. Aerial view of a recreational vehicle camper on a road surrounded by trees with colored leaves in autumn. Aerial view of many lakes surrounded by trees in autumn. Next scene shows airport worker guiding a large TWA jumbo passenger airplane as it taxis into a gate at an airport. Scenes inside an airport. Customers at ticket desks and information desks talking to airline agents and workers. A woman speaks in Spanish and provides guidance to a Spanish-speaking family as they look at a map inside the airport. Point of view shot from moving car at night on a highway of the midwest. Street lights illuminating the roadway. Pedestrians and cars in a town or city at night. Cooks wearing white chef hats prepare food in a casual restaurant. A full glass of beer slides across a bar to a patron, from a bartender. Batter Chet Lemon, number 34, hits a ball at a Detroit Tigers baseball game. A young boy in the stands wearing a Detroit Tigers baseball hat. Aerial view of Detoit Tigers baseball stadium lit up at night. View on field a Detroit Lions quarterback dropping back to deliver a pass in a football game. Kent Benson making a shot at a Detroit Pistons basketball game. Brief scene from a professional hockey game. Scenes from a high speed motor boat race as fans watch the race. Track level view of a pit stop underway during a Formula One car race. Scene of a Formula One car losing control during the race an swinging around backward with smoke coming up from tires. Front view of a red sports car (possibly a Pontiac Fiero) in front of a garage turning on its lights. Automatic pop up lights open and shine at the camera position. View of assembly line operations at an automobile factory in the midwest. Work being done by both automated welding machines and men working on the assembly line. Sunrise or sunset view of city of Detroit skyline with skyscrapers, as seen from a boat on the Detroit River. A large cargo vessel then is seen in the foreground as the camera position continues moving . Sunrise or sunset view of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri. Aerial wide view of downtown Chicago skyline as seen from a low flying aircraft over Lake Michigan. Young people in swimsuits jumping into a large swimming pool in Chicago Illinois, with view of skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago in the background. Two small motor boats underway in a lake cove. A local civic band playing in a small town as the director conducts them. Children march in a small town parade in a midwest American town. More children riding on a float covered with bunting and American flags, likely in an Independence Day parade. View of a tractor driving on a rural midwest road beside farm fields, as seen from a low-flying aircraft. The farmer on the tractor waves. Low flying aerial view of a Greyhound bus driving on a roadway with farm fields on either side.

Date: 1986
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039836
Baker kneading dough and placing rolls in a large brick oven at Hotel Statler in the United States.

Baking bread at Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Baker kneading dough and making rolls out of it. He places the rolls in a large brick oven. He takes out the baked rolls on a tray.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064470