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Demography 101: 1859 Detroit Census Shows Why Harper Hospital Was Built
If you want to understand why the City of Detroit badly needed a new hospital in 1859, all you have to do is take a quick look at the U.S. Census figures for that era. The numbers show that the Detroit...
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What’s On the Menu, Nurse?
An army marches on its stomach, according to Napoleon’s famous adage – and that was certainly the case during the two years in which Harper Hospital operated as a military facility run by the Union...
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From the Harper Archives
It happened on the morning of November 26, 1901 – a catastrophic boiler explosion at the Penberthy Injector Company factory on Brooklyn Street in Detroit. More than 150 workers were buried in the...
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A to Z of Detroit: Q is for…
“Special” Relationship? With the current levels of Royal hype in America you’d be forgiven for thinking that the “special” relationship between the USA and England has been around for a long time....
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