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Detroit's Belle Isle: Island Park Gem (MI) (Images of America)
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Detroit's Belle Isle: Island Park Gem (MI) (Images of America)
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by Michael Rodriguez and Thomas Featherstone
Sales Rank : 373257
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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing March 5, 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0738523151
ISBN-13: 978-0738523156
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Product Description
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 Isleís distinctive history. Throughout the cityís periods of accomplishment, economic flux, and social turmoil, Belle Isle is revealed as a romantic haven where Detroitís many cultures came together to relax, celebrate, and play. ÝÝ
About The Author
Michael Rodriguez 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.
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