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- 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
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black & white photographic print depicting a freight car labeled "Cotton Belt" with Michigan Central Station in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Trade card advertising the Great Western and Michigan Central Railway Line, with a color lithograph on the recto captioned, "The only Route via Niagara Falls & Suspension Bridge." The image shows a train crossing the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge with the falls in the background. "Take the Great Western & Michigan Central R.W. Line" is printed below the image. A map showing railroad lines from Chicago to the east coast, including those of the Michigan Central Railroad, the Great Western Railway, the Erie Railroad, the New York Central Railroad, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and the North Carolina Railroad, is printed on the verso. The map is captioned, "The Popular Niagara Falls Route between the East & West," and "Do not fail to see Niagara Falls & Travel over the Michigan Central & Gt. Western Railway Line."
- Date Issued:
- 1866-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- 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
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Jeffersonville Railroad ticket, numbered 8129, and embossed on the verso with a stamp for the date, May 26, 1865, for passage from Detroit to St. Clair over the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railroad line. The lower right corner is printed with the signature of General Ticket Agent Inspector A. Nafew.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- A "Disbanded Soldiers Ticket" for the Michigan Central Railroad from Detroit to Paw Paw issued by Charles S. May the captain of Company K of the 2nd Michigan Infantry. "1861" is printed at the bottom.
- Date Issued:
- 1861-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers membership card issued to J.W. Reading on June 10, 1882, for the group's Marshall Division No. 2, signed by Chief Engineer John H. Bailey, and First Assistant Engineer Frank E. Dilla. The verso is filled out, listing Reading as having ten years of experience as a road engineer and being in active service for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Eight-panel accordion-folded brochure from the Detroit United Railway containing a schedule, rates, a map of further routes connected from Toledo, and information on sites along their lines on the recto, and a large color stylized illustrated map of the company's routes, spanning from Detroit to Toledo, Jackson, Flint, and Port Huron, produced by the Calvert Lithograph Company on the verso. The brochure's cover is red with in insert illustration of a trolley car within a scene of a car traveling along tracks beside a lake and the woods.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Free pass for a round trip ride on the Michigan Central Railroad to Buffalo and back, issued to the company's clerk Nelson Bowen on July 31, 1854. The pass is signed by the superintendent R.N. Rice, and is punched three times along the left edge. The terms of the pass are printed on the verso, along with the handwritten notes, "Good on Great West. Railway, [?]" and "Pass from Schenectady to Buffalo, T.W. Stockton Wood, Aug. 1, 1854."
- Date Issued:
- 1854-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
