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- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo taken from the southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Michigan Avenue, facing northeast. The construction site where the Cadillac Hotel was demolished to make way for the Book-Cadillac Hotel is visible on the northeast corner. Beside it are the Detroit Edison Company office, and the Washington Boulevard Building along the east side of Washington. Alexander Macomb Monument stands in the median of Washington. Cars and pedestrians are visible around the intersection. A shadow, presumably of a finger over the lens, is in the upper left corner of the frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo taken from the southwest corner of Washington Boulevard and Michigan Avenue, facing northeast. The construction site where the Cadillac Hotel was demolished to make way for the Book-Cadillac Hotel is visible on the northeast corner. Beside it are the Detroit Edison Company office, and the Washington Boulevard Building along the east side of Washington. Alexander Macomb Monument stands in the median of Washington. Cars and pedestrians are visible around the intersection. A shadow, presumably of a finger over the lens, is in the upper left corner of the frame.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a pile of pipe in front of a large framework of wooden beams at a construction site. Snow covers the ground. Streetcar tracks and a road run along the foreground. "Feb. 16, 1918," is handwritten in the lower right corner of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Architecture
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a pile of pipe in front of a large framework of wooden beams at a construction site. Snow covers the ground. Streetcar tracks and a road run along the foreground. "Feb. 16, 1918," is handwritten in the lower right corner of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Architecture
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a pile of pipe in front of a large framework of wooden beams at a construction site. Snow covers the ground. Streetcar tracks and a road run along the foreground. "Feb. 16, 1918," is handwritten in the lower right corner of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a pile of pipe in front of a large framework of wooden beams at a construction site. Snow covers the ground. Streetcar tracks and a road run along the foreground. "Feb. 16, 1918," is handwritten in the lower right corner of the photo.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of the opening of a small shaft using in constructing the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A small cart used to haul gravel is on tracks running from the mouth of the shaft up an incline toward the camera. Railroad tracks run along the bottom of a cut to the right of the shaft. Two figures stand among construction debris in the background. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "158, Hauling Gravel up incline No. 3 Shaft, Windsor, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of the opening of a small shaft using in constructing the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A small cart used to haul gravel is on tracks running from the mouth of the shaft up an incline toward the camera. Railroad tracks run along the bottom of a cut to the right of the shaft. Two figures stand among construction debris in the background. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "158, Hauling Gravel up incline No. 3 Shaft, Windsor, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- 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