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The First Ford Plant in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Documentary titled 'The Ford Age'. Parked 1920s Ford automobiles. The First Ford Plant. Viewed through doorway an early model Ford automobile. Henry Ford drives a quadricycle, early Ford car model.

Date: 1923
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030022
The Magill jewelery shop in Detroit, where young Henry Ford worked evenings repairing clocks and watches, Michigan.

The Magill jewelery shop in Detroit, Michigan. A window of the two storey building with jewelery items on display. Engraved sign in front of the shop: 'Magill Jewelery Store. Young Henry Ford worked evenings, repairing clocks and watches in this shop. 'Baker Street Detroit'

Date: 1951, November
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036843
Large crowd in a parade on streets of Detroit, Michigan during World War I Liberty Bond drive

Aerial view of a large crowd on parade in Detroit Michigan, during a Liberty Bond drive. People move on the street carrying American flags. Close-up view of cheering crowd. Men with blackface (their faces painted black) carry a decorated casket on their shoulders through the crowd of cheering men, women, and children. Elevated view of American flags and a flag with 104 stars and a "104" stitched at the base, waving as they hang from a building. Cars, streetcars, and people move on a crowded street of Detroit below.

Date: 1917
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048802
Night views of Campus Martius area of Detroit Michigan with automobile headlights and street lights and retail signs

Detroit Michigan near Campus Martius Park. Dark night views of the city,automobile headlights blinking and moving, and streetcars passing. Buildings and roads are visible with lights and street lights. Neon signs include "Detroit Opera House" "Gold $15 clothes"; "Springfield hand made tires"; "Bonds $15"

Date: 1918
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030973
Urban racial violence, riots, looting, and arson in Detroit, Michigan.

Riots, looting, and arson during an outbreak of urban racial violence in Detroit, Michigan. Entire blocks of homes on fire as seen at night. 36 are dead, over a thousand injured during period of unrest in the civil rights movement. A fire truck arrives at the scene. A house on fire. Firemen put out fire. A building engulfed in flames. Sniper groups keep watch outside shops to prevent looting. A looted and trashed shop. Storefront window glass is shattered. People walk on the trashed streets of Detroit. Firemen use jets of water to put out fire. President Lyndon B. Johnson denounces the riots and urges national law and order. “Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights” President Johnson said.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029470
Street cars and automobile traffic in Detroit, Michigan.

View of busy city streets in Detroit, Michigan. Heavy vehicular traffic. Detroit business district with streetcars, automobile, pedestrian traffic, sight seeing buses and other vehicles. Policemen on elevated booth directs traffic. Sign on booth reads, 'Drive Safely, Walk Right' Traffic along a tree lined street.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030057