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- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3083 with a destination sign reading, "Grand Belt, W. Jefferson". Image from page 33 of D.U.R. Photographs to Accompany Report of C.H. Fessenden, Sept. 3, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photo taken at the opening of a line of the Detroit Citizens Street Railway Company. Four streetcars are draped in banners and flags and stopped along the sidewalk. Piles of bricks and construction debris are along the block on the left. Several bicycle stores are across the street on the right, and a moonlight tower stands in the background on the left. "Detroit Citizens St. Ry. Opening of Line," is stamped on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3030 with a destination sign reading, "Myrtle, Harper". Image from page 6 of D.U.R. Photographs to Accompany Report of C.H. Fessenden, Sept. 3, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3026 with a destination sign reading, "Hamilton, House". In the background is the Highland Park Ford Plant. Image from page 4 of D.U.R. Photographs to Accompany Report of C.H. Fessenden, Sept. 3, 1921.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photo of Detroit United Railway interurban streetcar number 7157 in Royal Oak. Women in cloche hats are riding on board. A drug store stands in the background on the left. "Detroit United Rys #7157 Royal Oak" is stamped on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Sepia-toned composite photo printed on photo paper showing thirty-six images of Detroit streetcars ranging from the horse-drawn era to the beginning of municipal control in 1921. The Hamtramck and Grosse Pointe Railway Company, Detroit City Street Railway Company, Detroit City Railway, and Detroit United Railway are all represented. A stamp on the verso credits the image to Manning Brothers, Incorporated.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Eight panel parallel folded Detroit United Railway interurban brochure with map. The recto includes times for the limited interurban lines between Detroit and Toledo, Port Huron, Flint, and Jackson, as well as a table, dated May 1910, showing fares between different stops, and information about the railway system and about points of interest in Detroit for tourists. The verso is printed with a color map expanding across all six panels, credited to the Calvert Lithographing Company, showing the routes of all of the D.U.R.'s lines spanning from Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- June 15, 1917 edition of Electric Railway Service, publihsed by the Publicity Department of Detroit United Lines, containing articles about satefy percautions for automobile drivers crossing streetcar tracks, letters to the editor, streetcar schedule and delays, general trivia, and a schedule of upcoming events in Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Staple-bound booklet distributed by the Committee of Citizens of Detroit containing lyrics set to popular songs critical of James Couzens and his plan for a municipally-owned street railway system. The booklet contains the songs "Jim Is Only Blowing Bubbles," "Jim, It Must Be Rare," "We'll Be All Out of Luck But Jim," "I've Got Some Bad News, Honey," "Oh, Jimmy, No Jimme," "We Can't Have This Any More," "The Mayor is Here Again," "Tell Me Why Folks Are Doubtful," "Carry Me Back to the Beginning," "I'll Build a Line," "There's a Long, Long Trail," "Blame All Your Troubles on the D.U.R.," "I'm Always Chasing Issues," "Everybody's Knockin' It," "Mayor Jim Has a Whim," "I'm Dreaming Dreams," "Vote It Down," "It's the Wrong Way," "Our Mayor Would Like a Car Line," "There's a Deal in the Land of Detroit," "Our Mayor Wants Fifteen Millions," "Keep the Home Fires Burning," "It's the Wrong Way to Build a Car Line," "Couzens Has a Plan," "Scots, Wha' Hae Wi' Wallace Bled," "A Neat Little Home of My Own," "Tipperary," "Mr. Mayor, Your Little Plan Won't Do," "What's the use of Dreaming," and "Jim Cousins has a Street Car Scheme." "Detroit May 1920 2020 Forest Ave [?]," is handwritten and "Received Mayor's Executive Secretarial, MAR 20 1992," is stamped on the cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- One poster titled "The Evolution of the Street Car in Detroit from Horse Car to Present Time - 1921." The poster includes 36 black and white photographic images of Detroit street cars which show the style changes from horse-drawn cars up to the electric motor driven cars.
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
