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Alfred Street Pictures and Maps

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Looking up Alfred Street circa 1900, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library




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Aerial View of Alfred Street 1897, Sanborn Maps, [http:// sanborn.umi.com.access-proxy.sno-isle.org/sanborn/image/download/pdf/mi/reel08/3985/00237/Detroit+1897 +vol.+3%2C+Sheet+14.pdf?CCSI=2578n] (8/30/2004)




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Aerial View of Alfred Street 1920, Sanborn Maps, [http://sanborn.umi.com.access-proxy.sno-isle.org/sanborn/ image/download/pdf/mi/reel09/ 3985/00249/Detroit+1910-1950+vol.+3%2C+1921%2C+Sheet+16.pdf?CCSI=2578n] (8/30/2004)



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Aerial View of Alfred Street 1940's, Sanborn Maps, [http://sanborn.umi.com.access-proxy.sno-isle.org/ sanborn/image/download/pdf/mi/reel13/3985/00255/Detroit+1910-July+1951+vol.+3%2C+1921- Nov.+1950%2C+Sheet+16.pdf?CCSI=2578n] (8/30/2004)



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Resturant behind Ransom Gillis House, February 2005 (torn down 2006)
Photo: John Kossik



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Aerial View of Alfred Street 2002, USGS 2002 [http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=9&Z=17&X=3309&Y=46899&W=1] (8/2004)



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Aerial View of Alfred Street 2010. Note resturant gone, house mothballed with asphalt roof, Google (8/24/2010)

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