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Page 31 FRONTIER METROPOLIS EXHIBIT DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM Despite its inland location, Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of the eastern United States. Although its distant history is poorly understood, a vivid iconographic record survives for early Detroit, created by those who studied the city for military or commercial purposes. These pictures and maps are tantalizing windows into the past of this colonial metropolis of the Great Lakes during its French, British, and early American periods. Brian Leigh Dunnigan, in his new book Frontier Metropolis, published by Wayne State University Press, illustrates and describes all known images of Detroit in the pre-photographic era - from its founding in 1701 until 1838 - to provide a nearly complete visual chronology made by people who knew the city. Brian has arranged these maps, plans, and views chronologically to show how Detroit and its community life evolved over its first 137 years. Culled from a variety of archives and private collections, images were selected that recorded contemporary scenes, avoiding those that were made later to recapture an earlier period. Chapter introductions review issues faced by Detroit residents during the years covered, while text accompanying the images places them in their historical context and adds the descriptive words of people from the past. (Reprinted from Wayne State University Press website www.wsupress.wayne.edu) The Frontier Metropolis Exhibit, which opened May 5th at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum closes September 2nd and reopens at the Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing Ml, September 14 th through December 2, 2001. This exhibit offers the rare opportunity, as part of Detroit's 300th birthday celebration, to view these historic documents and artwork.