1932 Packard sedan parked by the Lodge at Packard Proving Grounds

8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1932 Packard three-quarter right side view, parked by the Lodge. Inscribed on photo back: Packard 904, deluxe eight, ninth series, 8-cylinder, 135-horsepower, 147.125-inch wheelbase, 7-person sedan (body type #904), prototype, note radiator shell, positioning of fender well, 1931 Michigan license plate #416-608, setting Packard Proving Grounds, Utica, Mich.

1935 Packard sedan parked by the Lodge at Packard Proving Grounds

8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1935 Packard three-quarter left front view, parked on drive in front of the Lodge at the Packard Proving Grounds. Inscribed on photo back: Packard one twenty, model 120, twelfth series, 8-cylinder, 110-horsepower, 120-inch wheelbase, 5-person sedan (body type #893), note Michigan license plate # W83441, setting: Packard Proving Grounds, Utica, Mich.

1935 Packard sport coup, left side view, parked in front of the Lodge

8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1935 Packard left side view, parked on drive in front of the Lodge at the Packard Proving Grounds. Inscribed on photo back: Packard one twenty, model 120, twelfth series, 8-cylinder, 110-horsepower, 120-inch wheelbase, 2/4-person sport coupe (body type #895).

Palazolla, Joe; Boxer.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing; Matches; George Burnette vs Joe Sutka.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing; Matches; Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Joe Rindone

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing; Matches; Ed Waling vs. Joe Sworek

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing Matches; Joe Frazier vs. Bob Foster. -Foster Falling

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing; Matches; Ezzard Charles vs. Joe Wolcott.

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing Matches; Joe Frazier vs. Bob Foster. -Foster Falling

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Boxing; Matches; Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Joe Rindone

Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

Packard Model A with woman in front of the Lodge

8x10 black and white photograph of Packard Number One with woman, parked in front of the manager's quarters (a.k.a. the Lodge), designed by Albert Kahn, at the Packard Proving Grounds. Inscribed on photo back: car completed Nov. 6, 1899, Warren Ohio; Model A, 1-cylinder, 9-horsepower, 71.5-inch wheelbase, 2-person roadster; body by Morgan & Williams, carriage manufacturer, Warren, Ohio. Restored car has solid engine compartment door, vs. louvered door of original, and is missing original fitting…

1935 Packard sedan parked by the Lodge at the Packard Proving Grounds

8x10 black and white Packard Co. file photograph of a 1935 Packard three-quarter right side view, parked on drive in front of the Lodge at the Packard Proving Grounds, Van Dyke Ave. in the distance, couple standing on sidewalk. Inscribed on photo back: Packard one twenty, model 120, twelfth series, 8-cylinder, 110-horsepower, 120-inch wheelbase, 5-person sedan (body type #893), note Michigan license plate # W83441, setting: Packard Proving Grounds, Utica, Mich.

United States Jewry, 1776-1985. volume II. the Germanic period

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Maurice Sugar: law, labor, and the left in Detroit, 1912-1950

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Independent man: the life of Senator James Couzens

First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan’s most remarkable men. His many careers embraced both the business and political spheres.

All-American anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the labor movement

All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century.

This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from …

No haven for the oppressed: United States policy toward Jewish refugees, 1938-1945

No Haven for the Oppressed is the most thorough and the most comprehensive analysis to be written to date on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II. Friedman draws upon many sources for his history, significantly upon papers which have only recently been opened to public scrutiny. These include State Department Records at the National Archives and papers relating to the Jewish refugee question at the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. Such documents serve as the foun…

Birth of a notion, or, the half ain't never been told: a narrative account with entertaining passages of the state of Minstrelsy & of America & the true relation thereof (from the ha ha dark side)

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United States Jewry, 1776-1985. volume III. the Germanic period, part 2

In United States Jewry, 1776–1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus’s impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew,…