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Bessie Miller Photographic Collection: School Group Photos

In addition to the many group photos that can be assumed to be family photos, the Bessie Miller Collection includes some examples of photos of groups of school children, shown below.
Group Photo 1: A group of students dressed in costumes is posed in front of a school building. Costumes include native american dress and sailors.  There is [...]

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Bessie Miller Photographic Collection: Scrapbook Page 2

The most substantial single item in the Bessie Miller Photographic Collection is a scrapbook pasted full of miscellaneous snapshots that has unfortunately been dismantled.  Many of the pages have been cut apart to separate the images, and some of the images have been damaged from attempts to remove them from the black scrapbook pages. The image [...]

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Detroiters of the Past (Google Map)

View the subjects that Walter Lawrence Smith photographed and see the street where they lived on a Google Map. The samples you see on this map are unique is that we had a first and last name as well as an address. However, this is not always the case, we more often have record of [...]

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Mrs. Dorothy Holloway and Sons

This studio portrait is a 5 x 3, black & white print of a male infant laying on a receiving blanket identified as the son of Mrs. Dorothy Holloway residing at 9391 Goethe.  Little else is known about the subject.  
  
 
This studio portrait is a 3 x 5, black & white print of a male child.  The young [...]

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