Wayne County Morgue - Old photos
Wayne County Morgue
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Tools of the trade. The autopsy room in the morgue.
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Identifying a body in the morgue's rows of body coolers in 1952.
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The Wayne County Morgue in 1958 with awnings.
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Morgue staffers meet in a skylighted room in 1973.
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The cooler in the morgue in 1973. It was far too small for a county of Wayne County's size - and with Detroit's homicide rate.
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The morgue looking ragged in 1990, five years before it would be torn down.
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The front door of the Wayne County Morgue at Brush and Lafayette. It featured an Egyptian style entrance.