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1881, Detroit, Wilmer Brookes, printing bookstore, photo

1881, Detroit, Wilmer Brookes, printing bookstore, photo by Exile Bibliophile.
Antonio Dondero's wicker furniture factory

Three-story brick building, with "A. Dondero" on pediment. Men and boys stand by wicker furniture and baskets on sidewalk. Signs on building read: Detroit Willow Ware Manuf'ry, A. Dondero; photograph gallery; Willmen & Brookes, book & job printers. Brick buildings on both sides. Embossed on photograph front: "B.F.R.B. (?)." Handwritten on mat back: "North side Monroe Ave. bet. Farrer & Randolph, about 1881."

1 photographic print mounted on mat board ; image 8.25 x 6 in.

Reproduction of photograph from the Burton Historical Collection

Courtesy: Detroit Public Library:
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?q1=book;rgn1=ic_... 

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