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Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit

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Author: Dunnigan, Brian Leigh
Title: Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838
Place Published: Detroit
Publisher:Wayne State University Press
Date Published: [2001]
Description:

Profusely illustrated with color and black & white facsimiles, text illustrations, etc. (Folio) oblong. 33x46 cm (13x18"), quarter black leather and cloth, illustrated dust jacket. First Edition

Despite its inland location, Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of the eastern United States. Frontier Metropolis illustrates and describes all known images of Detroit in the pre-photographic era to provide a nearly complete visual chronology made by people who knew the city.

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Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit

Name: Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit
SKU: 45121495
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