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- Description:
- Black and white photographic print mounted on fabric depicting a Jeffery Dewitt Kiln under construction at the Champion Porcelain Co. Dated 4-18-1919.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print mounted on fabric depicting the cooling end a Jeffery Dewitt Kiln under construction at the Champion Porcelain Co. Dated 5-9-1919.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken along the tracks northwest the Detroit portals of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel during its construction. A Hocking Valley car is on the left, and on the right is a Michigan Central Railroad flatcar loaded with rails from the Mays Creek right-of-way which were being removed to make room for the new tunnel approach. Richard L. Aylward's coal business on Vermont Street stands beside the tracks on the right. The Vermont Street Bridge and Porter Street Bridge run overhead in the background. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "137-6, Westerly Open Cut. W. from Portal, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph showing the construction of the Ford River Rouge Complex Power Plant. Workers are present. A rail track runs adjacent to building. The background shows workers and a team of horses. Verso: "Power plant under constn. [construction]." Lower right hand corner shows photo number and date of photo: 22105-5-16-18. Photo mounted on a linen backing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print mounted on board depicting Mayor James J. Couzens driving the first spike in the first rail laid along Harper Avenue for the Department of Street Railways (Municipal Ownership System).
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph depicting the rails and foundation of the transfer Bed used to move Eagle Boats from the factory to the launch site at the Ford River Rouge Complex. Workers are present. Rail cars are visible in the background. Lower right hand corner shows photo number and date of photo: 22264-5-31-18. Photo mounted on a linen backing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Pere Marquette Railroad contract number 569, made with the Wayne County Road Commission in which the Pere Marquette agrees to install a 700 foot long rail siding at a road crossing 2.2 miles south of Plymouth. The document consists of a form envelope, an unsigned carbon copy of a letter from the division engineer of the Pere Marquette dated June 24, 1915, and a blueprint of the site attached with brass fasteners to an agreement signed by Pere Marquette's general manager, Frank E. Alfred, division engineer J.E. Johnson, and superintendent A.R. Merrick, as well as Board of County Road Commissioners chairman Edward N. Hines.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Print. Mounted, sepia-toned photographic print, entitled "Detroit River Tunnel, No. 8. October-1907," depicting the construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A barge equipped with two cranes is shown aside two pairs of buoyancy cylinders. Two upright cylindrical sections as well as an alignment mast protrude from the water in front of the nearest pair of cylinders. A small boat, a barge, and a tug are behind the further set of cylinders. On the left, behind a rubble-covered dock, a portion of a loaded railroad car ferry with four stacks is visible. Photo is mounted to white cardstock, onto which is printed the title and a caption: Section No. 1 - Showing section completely submerged on even keel, supported by buoyancy cylinders. Note white mark on alignment mast which will mark surface of water after second lowering. This is accomplished by the admission of water in compartments of cylinders. "C.M. Hayes & Co. Detroit" stamped into matting as well. Photo and matting were store inside of large white cardstock frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of stacks of pile conduits beside railroad tracks in Windsor, taken during the construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "Pile Conduits 100' S of Sta. 201, 6/11/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photograph depicting workers building forms for the foundation of the transfer bed on the grounds of the Ford Rouge Factory Complex. Pile drivers and two stopped locomotives with coupled rail cars are visible in the background. The caption "Forms are built for transfer bed foundations," is on the verso. Lower right hand corner shows photo number and date of photo: 22449-6-13-18. Photo mounted on a linen backing.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
