| Detroit's Belle Isle Contributor(s): Rodriguez, Michael (Author), Featherstone, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738523151 ISBN-13: 9780738523156 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 977.434 |
| LCCN: 2002116778 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.5" W x 9.42" (0.66 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Michigan - Locality - Detroit, Michigan |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Find out how Detroit's Belle Isle withstood the test of time and became a haven where cultures came together to relax, celebrate and play. One of the most unique urban parks in the world, Belle Isle has long been a source of civic pride in Detroit. In 1879, just as its population, land area, and industry were flourishing, the city of Detroit purchased this 700-acre island for use as a park. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was soon commissioned to transform the island into an idyllic retreat from the industrial city. This book uses remarkable images drawn from the Walter P. Reuther Library to document Belle Isle's distinctive history throughout the city's periods of accomplishment, economic flux, and social turmoil. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rodriguez, Michael: - Michael Rodriquez is a humanities librarian at Michigan State University. Thomas Featherstone is an audiovisual archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, and the co-author of another Arcadia title, Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City. |