CHANGING TIMES.(National Automotive History Collection)(Detroit Public Library services)

Byline: BROOKS BRIERLEY Automotive History collection at the Detroit Public Library sees a transformation Moving from a secluded corner in the vast main library to a gem-like art deco structure in downtown Detroit has transformed the National Automotive History Collection. It seems a bit livelier.

And more elegant, if one enters by the grand staircase. Even so, this new home was once the site of the state gallows, which fosters rumors the building is haunted. The NAHC traces its roots to 1896, when the library acquired its first automobile book. By 1944 a special room was set ...

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