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- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of a pile driver being used on the tracks between two overpasses which intersect on a right angle at the edge of the cut. Several people watch from the overpasses, while construction debris is scattered amongst the tracks below. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "621, Driving Piles for S. Wall of E.B. Arch, Sto. 142, 9/16/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- One Dollar issued by River Raisin and Lake Erie Railroad Company, dated August 1863, and signed by the company's president James Q. Adams and the cashier George D. Baldwin. An engraving of a train rounding a bend, passing a small riverside factory with a railroad bridge over the river in the background. The verso has an engraving consisting of the word, "One," is large letters surrounded by a green pattern.
- Date Issued:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting the corner of the Pere Marquette Freight Depot. A sign reading, "Inbound Freight, City Delivery" is posted along the side of the building where several wagons are parked. Two people stand in the depot's doorway, and several other figures pass on the sidewalk. A utility pole and lines are in the foreground. "Pere Marquette Freight Depot on Third St. south of the Union Depot taken Sept. 1905" handwritten on verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Photograph. Sepia-toned photo showing a man who is standing beside railroad locomotive no. 8947. Handwritten text on the lower and right edges of the photo shows "W. B. James, volunteer switchman during switchmen's strike, May, 1920" The photo was probably taken at a Michigan Central railroad yard near Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sheet music for "Blue Line Waltzes", composed by Roe Stephens, published by J. Henry Whittemore. Dedicated to Thomas Swinyard, esq., managing director of the Great Western Railway of Canada.
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Detroit approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, with a truss bridge overhead. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 9, 1910.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Five Dollar note issued by the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Bank, dated August 1, 1853, hand-numbered 1671, and signed by the company's president Addison Comstock and another person with an illegible signature representing Toppan, Carpenter, Casilear, and Company. An engraving of Franklin Pierce is in the center of the note. At each of the upper corners, a seated woman supports an oval shaped field containing the number 5. The woman on the left holds a sickle and sits next to a sheaf of wheat. The woman on the right sits atop a barrel, and the masts of a sailing ship are visible over her shoulder in the distance. The verso is blank except for a pair of backwards red number 5's.
- Date Issued:
- 1853-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Double-side handbill containing information for railroad travel along the Boston and Albany Railroad's Great Western Route between Albany, New York, and Milwaukie, Wisconsin, dated January 26, 1856. Information about connections, mail trains, and fares is printed on the recto. A map of the route is printed on the verso, however, a piece of Michigan Central Railroad Pioneer Association stationery has been partially adhered to the verso obscuring the map.
- Date Issued:
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Four panel brochure promoting the Detroit International Exposition and Fair held from September 17th to the 27th of 1889, mounted on red matting. The exposed face bears a color Calvert Lithograph Company illustration of Detroit, as viewed from the air above Delray, facing northeast, captioned "All Roads Will Lead to Detroit in September. Why? (see over)." The exposition site, containing the large Main Building, several smaller structures, and two ponds, is at the lower right corner of the image, to the west of Fort Wayne. The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad; Detroit and Bay City Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; Wabash Railroad; Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway; Belt Line; and Lake Erie, Essex and Detroit River Railway lines are all labeled, as are the communities along the Canadian side of the Detroit River--Walkerville, Windsor, Sandwich, and Mineral Spring. "The Michigan Farmer, Published by Gibbons Bros., Detroit, Mich." is stamped in the upper left corner of the print.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sheet music for the "Blue Line Galop", composed by Roe Stephens, published by J. Henry Whittemore. Dedicated to J. D. Hayes, esq., general manager of the "Blue Line".
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
