Print, Photographic
Black and white photographic enlargement print of the May 11, 1861 photograph of the 1st Michigan Infantry receiving their regimental flag colors in Campus Martius, as taken facing north. The soldiers stand at attention, with a crowd of onlookers behind them on the right, and in the foreground at the lower left.
Coyl's Block, H.R. Andrews' Rail-Road Hotel, Odd Fellows' Hall, and the building containing Simmons Whitney Melodeon Manufactory and B. Hall and Company leather goods are visible in the background. Signs are posted on Coyl's Block for Marcus Stevens and Company Furniture Warehouse, J.S. Jenness, and Henry C. Ripley. Further in the background, the steeple for the First Presbyterian Church at the corner of State and Farmer Streets, and a livery stable behind the Rail-Road hotel are visible.
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