Friday, November 20, 2009
Historic Replicas
Front page poster, T-shirts
An 18" x 24" replica of The Detroit News front page from Jan. 21 is available on heavyweight matte stock, for $9.99 plus $5 shipping and handling ($2 each additional item). T-shirts are $17.99 and $19.99.
- Click here to order or call 866-445-5800 (24 hours, orders only).
Also, our PhotoStore has available for purchase a high-resolution copy of the Jan 21 Detroit News front page, framed or unframed.
World War II Headlines
Front pages from The Detroit News
From the German invasion of Poland to the attack on Pearl Harbor to victory in Europe and Japan, browse the history of World War II as seen through the front pages of The Detroit News. These 22 pages are presented in PDF format.
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History in Photos
Aretha Franklin, "The Queen of Soul"
Diana Ross through the years
Mother of the civil rights movement Rosa Parks
Bob Seger
The bumpy road of Detroit's Grand Prix
Bo Schembechler, U-M football coaching legend
The Chrysler Corporation through the years
River Rouge: Ford factory through the decades
The cars that Rouge built
River Rouge: The faces behind the Fords
9-11: Then and now
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civin Rights movement
The crash of Flight 255
Detroit homes of the famous
The Guardian Building
The Masonic Temple
Cass Tech marks 100 years of academic excellence
The Pontiac Silverdome
The Boblo boat
Faygo pop celebrates 100th anniversary
The Lodge Freeway: Traveled by Detroiters for a half century
Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project marks 20th year
The rebirth of Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel
The main artery to Detroit's heart for 200 years
Detroit's gathering place
Decades of cruising Woodward
Cranbrook: A quiet benefactor's vision flourishes on north Woodward
Woodward eats: A look at Woodward through the stomach
Woodward houses of worship serve spiritual needs
Journeys end at Woodward cemeteries
Rhetoric, angels and a heavenly Shrine of the Little Flower
Ferndale: Woodward's city on the rebound
Life on the State Fair grounds; death in the Coliseum
The theaters of lower Woodward
Boom times, hard times in Highland Park
Donna Terek: Donna's Detroit
Remembering those who died in the Great Lakes
Detroit is famous for automobiles, music and urban decay, but our region also is defined by a volatile, mysterious force: The Great Lakes. - 11/15/2009
- Ford's Rouge reborn: Tours take MTV approach to industry
- Rouge naval school trained WWII sailors in skilled trades
- Henry Ford educated generations of tradesmen
- The building of the Ambassador Bridge
- How this newspaper proved it was more than just a fish wrapper
- Detroit's first commercial airplane builder
- The auto industry's family trees
- When Michigan rode the rails
- Those daring Detroit Newsmen in their flying machines
- How J.L. Hudson changed the way we shop
- Born in fire -- the curved-dash Olds
- The voyage of the stalwart little ship 'Detroit'
- Up in smoke: Cigar making in Detroit
- How the bicycle put Detroit on wheels
- Mr. Ford, blacks and the UAW
- The Detroit Auto Show: from beer gardens to tabernacles to Cobo Center
- Auto plant vs. neighborhood: The Poletown battle
- The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit
- The Detroit River ferryboats
- Once teeming with auto plants, Detroit now home to only a few nameplates
- Snap, Crackle and Profit -- the story behind a cereal empire
- Grinnell's pianos and the world's largest mass piano concerts
- How labor won its day
- The Rouge plant -- the art of industry
- The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes
- Snack foods and pop, Detroit style
- The free-wheeling gambler who created conservative General Motors
- The man who could out-lumber Paul Bunyan
- The rise and fall of John DeLorean, dashing, maverick automaker
- The man who fought McCarthy's red smear
- Competition was a way of life for Detroit speed skater
- The Bay City boy who became a major shipbuilder
- How Detroit's 211th birthday gala ended with city's aldermen in jail
- The year Detroit flew high with 'The Bird'
- Newsstand owner was a street-corner witness to history
- How Harry Blackstone brought magic to Michigan
- Harry Houdini: Master of illusion and escape
- Albert Kahn, the architect of the auto industrialists
- Orville Hubbard -- the ghost who still haunts Dearborn
- The mystery of Pere Marquette's final resting place
- When Denny McLain stood baseball on its ear
- The Detroit News in Antarctica
- The royals in Detroit
- Carl Milles, Cranbrook's favorite sculptor
- Michigan's greatest treasure -- its people
- When the pope visited Detroit
- The day Jimmy Hoffa didn't come home
- The Execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik
- Harley Earl, father of the 'dream' car
- Minoru Yamasaki, world-class architect
- Marshall Fredericks -- the Spirit of Detroit
- The Shoemaker Who Looked Like a King
- Detroit's 59ers -- Alaska or bust!
- Lucky Lindy and his ties to Detroit
- How Billy Sunday battled demon rum in Detroit
- Richard Frankensteen, the UAW's 'other guy'
- Detroit's flamboyant Prophet Jones
- Henry Leland, forgotten giant of the auto industry
- Dr. Ralph Bunche -- from Detroit to the world stage
- 'I Think Mr. Ford is Leaving Us'
- Father Gabriel Richard: Detroit's pioneer priest
- Leonard B. Smith and the Detroit Concert Band
- Irene McCabe and her battle against busing
- Father Solanus Casey and his 'favors'
- Henry Ford and Thomas Edison -- a friendship of giants
- William A. Kuenzel, Detroit News Photographer
- The adventures of the Human Fly
- Ty Tyson, the world's first sports broadcaster
- Father Charles E. Coughlin, The Radio Priest
- The Wolverines' legendary Tom Harmon
- 'Nancy Brown' provided a shoulder for News readers to lean on
- Book sheds light on where a host of former Detroiters once lived
- Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel is history's front porch
- The luxury resort that discrimination built
- How the Renaissance Center changed the landscape of Detroit
- Lavish Grayhaven community was crippled by Great Depression
- The most beautiful building in the world
- Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At Detroit Dragway!
- Detroit's fabulous Michigan Theater
- Guardian Building has long been the crown jewel in Detroit skyline
- Tales from the Crypt: The Wayne County Morgue
- Mrs. Dodge and the regal Rose Terrace
- Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past
- The breathtaking Mackinac Bridge
- Campus Martius -- city's heart may beat again
- Detroit's street names honor early leaders
- The building of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel
- The monuments of Detroit
- Mt. Clemens, 'Bath City of America'
- Eloise -- the poorhouse that became an asylum
- Woodward Avenue, Detroit's grand old 'Main Street'
- How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last
- Detroit's Fort Wayne under siege
- The campaign to preserve Isle Royale
- The day the bridge to Belle Isle burned down
- Detroit's historic Indian Village
- Detroit's historic Fox Theatre
- Belle Isle's retired ships
- Detroit's fountain of mirth
- Frankenmuth -- the city of Chicken and Christmas
- Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and Plum Street
- The orchids that saved the Belle Isle Conservatory
- Battle of the Garden Court
- The elegant lives of a Van Dyke mansion
- Dodge yacht to sail in splendor again
- The Detroit Boat Club
- How the Detroit River shaped lives and history
- Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy
- When flames consumed a Christmas fantasy
- Bob-Lo, island of the white wood
- Tales from the crypts: Elmwood Cemetery stories
- Fox theater's rebirth ushered in city's renewal
- 'I have to die a man or live a coward' -- the saga of Dr. Ossian Sweet
- Party town: Detroit celebrates its past
- The night the Montrose sank in the Detroit River
- The fateful voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Chief Pontiac's siege of Detroit
- The Great Detroit News Payroll Robbery
- The SS Tashmoo and her date with doom
- The Water Wonderland loves a good boat show
- The race between two centuries
- When Memorial Day was more than just a 3-day weekend
- Conquering the dreaded crippler, polio
- The 1943 Detroit race riots
- The first Armistice Day: When the doughboys came marching home
- Horror in a Port Huron water intake tunnel
- The year the Shriners partied in Detroit
- The bloody Fourth that ended do-it-yourself fireworks in Detroit
- The Battle of the Overpass
- The murder that brought down the Black Legion
- The great escape at Ironwood
- When the flu ravaged the world
- When Hollywood came to the UP
- The night 12 ships vanished on the Great Lakes
- Detroit's expedition to the Arctic
- The Detroit Lions' glory days
- Michigan Athletes have made Olympic history
- Michigan's long history of ski jumping
- The year Mickey Lolich won the World Series
- Detroit's legends of bowling
- The Port Huron to Mackinac race
- Al Kaline -- the Detroit Tigers' 'Mr. Perfection'
- Detroit, the City of Champions
- When Detroit rode the polo ponies
- He made golf his life, Michigan his home
- The Tigers' 'Hammerin' Hank' Greenberg
- Schoolboy Rowe, the Tigers' Southern gentleman
- The glorious Wings of old
- Ernie Harwell and Tiger Stadium: Two old friends
- The golden days of Golden Gloves
- Bobby Layne and the Lions' glory days
- Gar Wood, speedboat king
- Hughie Jennings: The Tigers' "Eee-Yah" man
- The hockey game that broke out during a riot
- The Brown Bomber -- The man behind The Fist
- The day the Tigers finally integrated
- Ty Cobb, the greatest Tiger of them all
- Flying high with model planes
- Those magnificent men in red
- 100 years of baseball at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull
- Let's get ready to rumble: Cruising in the Motor City
- When the drive-in theater was king
- Detroit's worst snowstorms
- When Detroit danced to the big bands
- The toy train that rules Christmas
- How Detroit lost its stately elms
- The Purple Gang's bloody legacy
- How Arts and Crafts flourished in industrial Detroit
- Detroit's Polar Bears and their confusing war
- The war between Michigan and Ohio
- Jessie DeBoth and The Detroit News cooking school
- Put-in-Bay: Just cruising along on moonlight bay
- The Golden Age of the Motown Sound
- The stars who turned Detroiters into couch potatoes
- Pewabic tile, Detroit's art treasure
- Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
- Detroit's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang
- Once bustling iron town now mines tourism
- How Prohibition made Detroit a bootlegger's dream town
- The crosstown mob wars of 1930-31
- When bomb shelters were all the rage
- How the Great Depression changed Detroit
- Detroiters and their beers
- How the egg came to symbolize Easter
- Sailing on Lake St. Clair's icy winter winds
- Detroit is fertile ground for art
- Some haunting tales from Detroit's past
- The Red Arrow Division: Fierce fighters of the first World War
- The Michigan State Fair
- Michigan's mysterious Indian mounds
- Detroit's giant stove and tire
- The Grand Army of the Republic
- The Detroit News Hiking Club
- The All-American Soap Box Derby
- Where Detroit's elite met to eat
- Paradise Valley and Black Bottom
- Detroit's killer heat wave of 1936
- The Sunday drive
- The origins of the Goodfellows: 'No kiddie without a Christmas'
- Michigan -- the home of Noah's Ark?
- Of soda fountains and ice cream parlors
- The King of Beaver Island
- How Detroit got its first black hospital
- Detroit's amusement parks
- The great Michigan UFO chase
- The Detroit News Spelling Bee
- How one man's bad luck paved way for creation of Cranbrook
- How Detroit police reinvented the wheel
- Selfridge Field and the beginnings of air power
- The Dossin Great Lakes Museum
- Detroit's magnificent old City Hall
- James E. Scripps and Detroit's art museum
- The Detroit Fire Department's 130 years of flames and heroics
- The Civilian Conservation Corps
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