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Summary: The Detroit You've Never Seen: Its Early History Revealed
Review: This stunning visual documentation of Detroit's evolution from western outpost to one the largest cities on the American frontier is remarkable for both its scholarship and its detailed graphic content. Lush with color, these pre-photographic images depict in vivid detail both the physical growth of Detroit from its earliest days as a European settlement to its mid-nineteenth emergence as one of the industrial/commercial giants of North America, as well as the passing of its role as a center of Native American life. Created to commemorate Detroit's Tricentennial, the work's author, Brian Dunnigan, Curator of Maps at the University of Michigan's famed William L. Clements Library, has done the nation and Michigan a great service by gathering into one resource these rare and unique images, many of which heretofore never had been published. A wealth of intricate maps, colorful engravings, architect's renderings, military documents, portraits, watercolors, simple line drawings, and even a bull's horn scrimshaw of ships and buildings from 1765 highlight this remarkable work. In all 287 images can be found within its 256 pages. This volume is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Great Lakes and the Northwest Territories, and documents the crucial role Detroit played in the pre and post-revolutionary development of the United States.
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