Old Main - Old photos
Old Main
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The main hallway of Old Main in its Central High School days. Note the clock, seen in an earlier photo in this gallery.
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Old Main has been a center of Wayne State live for a century.
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Old Main in 1971
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Old Main in the 1970s
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Old Main in the 1960s
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Old Main in the 1960s
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A stairway of Old Main
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The Central High School library
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A laboratory at Old Main during its days as Central High School
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A decorative column in a hallway of Old Main during its Central High School days
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A clock in the main hallway of Old Main during its Central High School days.
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A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
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A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
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A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
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A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
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Old Main before its addition, about 1900
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Old Main in 1897
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The men's room of Old Main
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Old Main shortly after it opened. Photo taken about 1900.
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Old Main in the 1930s.
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Old Main in its days as Central High School and before it was expanded
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Graduates get ready for the big ceremony outside Old Main in the mid-1930s
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Under the roof of Old Main
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Old Main goes up in 1895.
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Old Main goes up in 1895.
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Old Main goes up in 1895.
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Old Main in its days as Central High School, seen here about 1915
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Old Main in its days as Central High School.