Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Wet Pavement Headlight Streaks on Witherell Street (Circa 1925)

Demonstrating precise shutter timing on slow 1920s film emulsions, Donald A. Hall Sr. recorded the kinetic energy of Detroit traffic from the Downtown YMCA in 1925. The rain-slicked pavement reflects incandescent streetlamps and commercial neon outside the Leib School.