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- Description:
- Sepia-toned group portrait photo of fourteen uniformed employees, including George Henry Koehler, of the Detroit United Railway and a boy posed in front of and on the front platform of a Baker line streetcar in the yard of the Baker Carhouse. The base of a water tower rises off the top of the frame in the background. Koehler, fourth from the left, is circled and identified in the typewritten caption on the verso: Property of "Koehler" family Picture of father: George H. Koehler (circled) with 14 other employees of Detroit Street Railways---Baker Street Car Barns 1905/06 note: brush broom bar to change tracks trolley other employee #'s 1523 3503 Circle is George Henry Koehler Father
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3073 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". In the background is a brick building. Image from page 28 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 #3111 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". Image from page 47 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 #3043 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, Fairgrounds". Passengers look out the windows. Image from page 13 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 #3108 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". In the background is a brick building. Image from page 45 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 print of a group of six women, two men, and a child on a hayride posed laying or seated in a wagon pulled by two horses at Whitmore Lake. A field with two trees is in the background. "#689 Straw Ride (Me) Whitmore Lake, Aug 19/27, 1905," is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1905-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar trailer #5109 with a destination sign reading, "Jefferson, House". Image from page 59 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 air brake equipment in a Detroit United Railway repair shop. Image from page 101 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 #3025 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, Special". 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 photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3021 with a destination sign reading, "Belt, House". Image from page 2 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 streetcar number 804, an old open car, taken in the Department of Street Railways era prior to being scrapped. The car's paint is worn. The car is beneath a wooden frame outfitted with electrical equipment. Another car is ahead of it on the left edge of frame. "Detroit United Rys. #804, 1922," is stamped on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3081 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". In the background is the Highland Park Ford Plant. Image from page 32 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 the front of an old horse-drawn streetcar, numbered 73, presumably on the grounds of the streetcar barn along Wyoming Avenue. The car is off the tracks, and its wheels rest in dirt.
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3091 with a destination sign reading, "Grand Belt, W. Jefferson". In the background is a brick building. Image from page 37 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 print, presumably an enlargement of a glass negative, showing a horse with a bridle, yolk, and harness trapped in mud up to its shoulder along East Nevada Avenue. A crowd is gathered around the horse, visible in frame as feet and legs among piles of bricks and boards on the far side of the horse, and shadows of men in hats in the foreground. A partially out of frame man on the left pulls a chain in an effort to free the horse. Another partially out of frame man in front of him holds the end of a rope tied to the horse. A backwards caption stretches across the bottom of the frame, "[S]tuck in mud on E. Nevada Ave. Detroit, Mich. 191[...]."
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3027 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". Image from page 5 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 air brake equipment in a Detroit United Railway repair shop. Image from page 99 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 #3075 with a destination sign reading, "House". Image from page 29 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:
- Sepia-toned photo of an Erie Railroad truss bridge before a bend in the tracks, as taken from along the tracks. "Erie R.R. 1899," is typewritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3084 with a destination sign reading, "Baker, Dix". 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 photographic print depicting Detroit United Railway streetcar #3088 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". In the background is a brick building. Image from page 35 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 #1159 marked for overhaul at repair shop. Destination sign reads, "Gratiot, Special". Image from page 78 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 electrical equipment in a Detroit United Railway repair shop. Image from page 94 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 #3022 with a destination sign reading, "Woodward, House". In the background is the Highland Park Ford Plant. Image from page 2 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:
- 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:
- Stock Certificate. 100 shares of Detroit United Railway stock, issue number D-15. An etching of a United Railway car is printed at the center-top of the certificate. The word "VOID" is punched into the certificate three times on the lower right side.
- 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:
- Invitation. Invitation printed on cream-colored cardstock bearing a blue image of the Fort Street Union Depot. Verso reads: Canadian Pacific, Detroit, Lansing & Northern, Flint & Pere Marquette, Wabash Detroit, January 1st, 1893 Dear Sir You are cordially invited to inspect the new Union Passenger Station, corner Fort and Third Sts, on the twenty first day of January 1893. Fort Street Union Depot Co. Concert from 8 to 10 P.M. Text is in a blue script.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- One brochure entitled "Detroit United Lines - Rides by Trolley, Fast Electric Service Between the Principal Cities of Michigan." The folded brochure shows general information and timetables on one side and shows a map of southeast Michigan on the other side. The multicolor map is entitled "Detroit United Lines and Interurban Connections, 1913" and shows the interurban line locations from Detroit. The map was printed by the Calvert Lithograph Company of Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Detroit United Lines Employee's Pass Receipt, number 817674, dated January 1918. The pass is punched by conductor 22 and foreman 22.
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- One map entitled "D.M. & M.R.R. [Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad] Land Plan, Part of Private Claims at St. Ignace." The map consists of red, blue, and black ink on linen and shows the property lines, parcel numbers, and names of property owners along a section of shoreline on East Moran Bay at St. Ignace, Michigan. Property being acquired by the railroad or the state for right-of-way purposes is tinted in yellow, red, and blue according to a corresponding legend. The map is drawn at a scale of 1 inch = 50 feet. A handwritten note in the lower left corner shows "D.M.M.R.R. Engineers Office, St. Ignace, March 3d of 87 [1887], J. H. Orvis, Eng."
- Date Issued:
- 1887-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- One stock certificate from the "Fort Street and Elmwood Railway Co." The certificate form is printed in black ink on thin vellum paper and has a decorative border and text. It shows an engraved image of a horse-drawn railway car at the center. Handwritten text on the left side and on the form indicates that certificate "No. 18" was issued in the amount of "20 shares" to "Nathaniel Prouty" and is dated May 26, 1869. A rectangular 25-cent "United State Internal Revenue" stamp is affixed on the left side of the certificate. Additional text on the verso indicates that the certificate was transferred to "Stephen B. Grummand" on February 8, 1875.
- Date Issued:
- 1869-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
- Description:
- Pamphlet from the Grand Trunk Railway with employee rules and timetables for the Western District. Timetables on Toronto time for the routes between Sarnia and Toronto, St. Mary's and London, and Berlin and Doon. Timetables on Chicago time for the route between Port Huron and Detroit. Dated January 10, 1865.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- 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
- Description:
- August 29, 1913 edition of Electric Railway Service, published by the Publicity Department of Detroit United Lines, containing an articles about arbitration between the Detroit United Railway and Division No. 29 of the Employees' Association of Motormen and Conductors, the schedules of D.U.R. employee's compared to workers in other cities, a critique of the amount of Detroit Times stock held by non-Detroiters, changes in track construction, line news briefs, general trivia, and a schedule of upcoming events in Detroit.
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Transportation
