Detroit's West Side connects residential neighborhoods, industrial employment, commercial strips, major streets, and police geography. It is also central to Ralph Palmer's earliest years in uniform.
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Arthur S. Siegel photograph of Detroit residential housing, February 1942. Source: Library of Congress FSA/OWI · Public domain.WEST-SIDE CONTEXT — not a photograph of Tireman Avenue.
NEIGHBORHOOD FILE
Reading the West Side.
McGraw and Sixth Precinct geography
Tireman Avenue and surrounding street network
Factory employment and worker housing
Commercial corners, taverns, schools, churches, and transit
How patrol boundaries intersected daily neighborhood life
DEEP DETROIT · BOOKS PROTECTED
Residential blocks, industry, commercial streets, and police geography stay here as place-based context for Ralph Palmer’s early years.