Home > Events and Programs > Special Events > Rauhauser Special Events Join Us For This Amazing Exhibit Documenting Our Extraordinary City! Main Library, in the Burton Historical Collection Reading Room The Detroit Public Library invites you to a special exhibit celebrating the donation of the Bill and Doris Rauhauser Photography Archive to the Burton Historical Collection. For more than 60 years Detroit photographer Bill Rauhauser has captured this complex and beautiful city through his camera. This is an exceptional and extraordinary gift of several thousand photographs and represents an amazing visual chronology of the city of Detroit. Acclaimed for its photographic holdings, the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library is also one of the nation’s premier collections of print Americana and materials relating to the history of Detroit, the old Northwest and genealogy.