Guide to Detroit
By: by Helen E. Keep and M. Agnes Burton
Contributors: Burton, M. Agnes (Mary Agnes); Detroit News (Firm)
Publisher: Detroit News Company
Published: 1916
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Pictorial works; Municipal buildings; Monuments; Streetscapes (Urban design); Hotels; Library buildings; Church buildings; Automobile industry and trade; Railroad stations; Lighthouses; Tall buildings; Restaurants; Detroit Museum of Art; Michigan Central Railroad Company; Ford Motor Company
Notes: Descriptive text about Detroit, with photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Detroit.

Includes map of Detroit (36 x 55 cm., folded to 10 x 16 cm.), which highlights city and suburban streetcar lines, drawn and published by Sauer Bros., annotated in black ink to note locations of YMCA, Michigan Central Railroad Station, and Packard auto plant. Advertisement for Burton Land Company, "Specialists in Subdivision Property," at lower edge of map, which notes the company's Detroit subdivisions.

Includes images of city hall, post office, monuments, libraries, hotels, high-rise office buildings, schools, YMCA, Belle Isle, zoo, aquarium, hotels, churches, temple, street views, restaurant interiors, parks, waterways, lighthouses, and railroad station.

Includes photographs of Ford Motor Plant, Maxwell Motor Car Co., Chalmers Factory, Paige-Detroit Factory, and Dodge Motor Company. Advertisements included at end of book.

Includes photographs of the Detroit Museum of Art, with photographs of paintings from the collection.

Avery Classics copy: Underlining, markings on photographs, and narrative annotations throughout book, with cover inscription "Present to R. I. Preston from her son Chas. I Preston, 1919 Spring."