Grand Circus Park Detroit, Michigan, 1921 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Grand Circus Park Detroit, Michigan, 1921, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: [Grand Circus Park]
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Grand Circus Park Detroit, Michigan, 1921
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In 1921, Grand Circus Park was a showpiece for a Detroit that had grown to nearly a million people in the 1920 census, and the city was still reeling from a sharp postwar slump that cut automobile production and sent many factory workers looking for jobs. The city's convention and tourist bureau had good reason to promote downtown, since hotels and theaters around the park relied on visitors. Prohibition had taken effect nationally the year before, and Detroit's position across the river from Canada made it a busy center of liquor smuggling, a trade that drew police and federal attention to the waterfront. The park's green, with its central plaza and ringed streets, gave residents and out-of-town visitors a formal setting at the head of Woodward Avenue.
| Created / published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Creator | manning bros, detroit convention & tourist bureau |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,076 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Grand Circus Park] |
| Reference | MI Grand Circus Park Detroit 1921 |
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