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Detroit Michigan USA 1916 stock footage and images

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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
Game 7 World Series baseball match between Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals in Detroit Michigan

Scenes from game 7 of the World Series in 1934: Detroit Tigers, of Detroit, Michigan play against the St. Louis Cardinals from St. Louis, Missouri, at Navin Field in Detroit Michigan. The players include Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean and Joe "Ducky" Medwick. The players playing the game. Notable persons watching the game include: Henry Ford, son Edsel Ford, Will Rogers and R Judge Landis (Kenesaw Mountain Landis), the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball. A large crowd of spectators watch the game in the stadium. Fans throw pop bottles and fruit onto the field in the 6th inning of game 7 after Cardinals star Ducky Wucky Medwick slides into the Detroit 3rd baseman Marv Owen. Medwick is removed from the game by Commissioner Landis. St. Louis Cardinals with its infamous "Gashouse Gang" win the game and the series. From a "25 years ago today" retrospective in a UN newsreel, dated September 24, 1959.

Date: 1934, October 9
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044711
View of the harbor, railroad station and busy streets in Detroit, Michigan.

Sun over harbor and view of skyline in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Financial District buildings visible. Steamship ferry boat leaves dock. View of skyline and waterfront. Several steamship ferry boats at a dock. Ore freighters in harbor and on river. View of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit (or Michigan Central Depot, MCS) with passengers coming and going through the railroad train station main entrance. Cars parked in front of the railroad station. Views of city from elevated area. Workers build a house. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic in business district, including streetcars and automobiles. Shops and businesses along downtown streets. A police officer directs traffic from a raised platform in the center of an intersection. Sidewalks crammed with pedestrians. Linked 2-car streetcars pass by on streets.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030154
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
Food being prepared in kitchens of the Hotel Statler in the United States.

Foods being prepared in the kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Vegetables cooked in large steamer. Woman places a tray of vegetables in the steamer. Man selects and cleans fish and lobsters. Soup boils in big copper pots. Butcher cuts turkey.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064471
Workers stack groceries and canned food and chefs eating at Hotel Statler in the United States.

Views inside the food storerooms and kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit Michigan. Men gather groceries and canned food stored in the hotel storeroom. Two men on the ladder placing cans on shelves. Woman oversees employees with a paper in hand. Hotel Statler chefs discuss matters while they drink and eat at a table..

Date: 1916
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064472