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DETROIT NEIGHBORHOODS · EAST SIDE

EAST SIDE DETROIT.

The East Side combined residential districts, commercial corridors, industry, and river-linked geography, all changing rapidly through Detroit's mid-century growth.

Gratiot Avenue from Woodward, Detroit, early 1900s
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Gratiot Avenue from Woodward, photographed between 1900 and 1910.
Source: Detroit Publishing Co. / Library of Congress · No known restrictions on publication.AVENUE CONTEXT — earlier than Ralph Palmer’s police years.
NEIGHBORHOOD FILE

Reading the East Side.

Residential and industrial districts
Commercial corridors and transportation
River proximity and employment
Police districts and neighborhood institutions
Mid-century population and land-use change
DEEP DETROIT · BOOKS PROTECTED

Residential, commercial, industrial, and river-linked geography stay together here as period context.

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