Photograph of a boy at the Detroit Art Institute. He sits on the floor, making an object out of clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0005-23

Photograph of a boy working on a piece of art at the Detroit Art Institute. The boy sits on the ground with a piece of paper and what appears to be clay. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0030-16

Photograph of two boys at the Detroit Art Institute. They sit on the ground with large pieces of paper and what appears to be clay, looking upward at a statue of a donkey. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0034-31

Photograph of two young girls painting a picture at the Detroit Art Institute. They sit on the floor, and the girl on the left appears to have drawn a house and a person. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0013-19

Photograph of four students at the Detroit Institute of Art. The children sit on the ground with art materials in front of them. Photo by Bernice Clark. Signed by: Bernice Clark Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0031-36

Photograph of a boy and a girl looking for places to put their art on the ground in a hallway of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Mounted pieces line the hallway walls, whereas the children's work is placed along the ground. Photo by Bernice Clark. Clark PhotoFile: 7069-0025-22

Photograph of a man painting in the Detroit Art Institute. The unidentified man is standing in front of a canvas filled with an assortment of shapes, and is smiling while holding a paintbrush.

Photograph of a woman and a young boy at the Detroit Art Institute. The woman looks at a piece of paper the boy is holding up. A statue stands in the right corner.

Photograph of a woman sitting in a circle with several children at the Detroit Art Institute. They gather near a donkey statue with paper in front of them. Stairs and exhibits can be seen in the background.

Photograph of an unidentified Detroit Times Editor with Junebug Clark. They walk outside of the Detroit Times building, wearing jackets. Junebug held a position as a paid staff photographer for nine months before being "fired" for the newspaper breaking child labor laws. The newswires picked up on this "World's Youngest Press Photographer" being fired and his career took off. This picture was taken for Life magazine. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 6961-0007-7

Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in a corner lot at Hamtramck, Michigan. The photograph on the left shows a boy preparing to swing a baseball bat, and the right photograph shows a very young boy throwing a baseball.Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in a corner lot at Hamtramck, Michigan. The photograph on the left shows a boy preparing to swing a baseball bat, and the right photograph shows a very young boy throwing a baseball. Photo by: Joe Clark, HBSS. Clark PhotoFile: 6955-65

Two matted photographs of children playing baseball in Hamtramck, Michigan. The left image features a small boy throwing a ball. The right image features an older boy holding a baseball bat.

Photograph of a statue titled "The Spirit of Detroit," possibly taken during the late 1950's. The statue was commissioned in 1955 and dedicated in 1958, and it is owned by the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. The statue features a man holding a different object in each hand. City and county seals can be seen on a wall behind it.

Photograph of a statue titled "The Spirit of Detroit," taken from a distance. A tall wall or building stands behind the statue, which was commissioned in 1955 and dedicated in 1958.