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a city street into a fairy glade?
Detroit circa 1907. The normally prosaic Detroit Publishing caption writers got creative on this one. Added attraction: whimsical mailbox graffito. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
As another poster said, it has not been this residential or shady for decades. Attached is a Google street view as proof.
That would explain the graffiti, and the weather.
The view here is looking east down Forest across Woodward. Today this street dead-ends a block east of Woodward at the VA Medical Center. And the neighborhood hasn't been this sleepy, shady, or residential for many decades. However, the building seen to the left, First Congregational Church, is still there, still active, and still looks very much the same today.
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