There is No Landscape like a Commercial Landscape: An investigation into the Working-Class of Corktown, Detroit 1890-1906
Author(s): Andrew D. McKinney
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 1: A Focus on Cultures, Populations, and Ethnic Groups" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
This poster investigates the archaeological, documentary, and photographic record to re-create the commercial landscape of a demolished working-class community within the Corktown neighborhood in the City of Detroit. The years under investigation are 1890-1906. Examining the commercial landscape will help to gain insight into gendered norms, consumer habits, business networks, and social relationships of both the working-class inhabitants of the community and the shop proprietors located along Michigan Avenue between Wabash and 18th Street. The pages of history associated with the daily lives of the working-class are often left blank; this investigation will attempt to fill those blank page.
Cite this Record
There is No Landscape like a Commercial Landscape: An investigation into the Working-Class of Corktown, Detroit 1890-1906. Andrew D. McKinney. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449190)
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Keywords
General
Commercial Landscape
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Working Class
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1890-1906
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 347