Burton Historical Collection

Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202
www.detroit.lib.mi.us/burton/burton_index.htm

Considered the largest collection in Michigan, it includes diverse and extensive holdings of original, printed, and micrographic historical and genealogical material. The emphasis of the collection is on Detroit and Michigan, beginning with the seventeenth century. Refer to Joseph Oldenburg's A Genealogical Guide to the Burton Historical Collection'Detroit Public Library (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1988).