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- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo postcard bearing an image of Detroit United Railway motorman George H. Koehler, and conductor William Theisen posed in their uniforms beside streetcar number 739 of the Sherman line. Another streetcar is behind them on the left. A partially obscured sign advertising "Honest Scrap" is painted on a building in the background on the right. The verso is divided, and "My father - George H. Koehler, motorman, & Mr. Wm. Theisen, 1906, Detroit, Michigan," is handwritten there.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- 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:
- 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
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo postcard bearing an image of Detroit United Railway motorman George H. Koehler, and conductor William Theisen posed in their uniforms beside streetcar number 739 of the Sherman line. Another streetcar is behind them on the left. A partially obscured sign advertising "Honest Scrap" is painted on a building in the background on the right. The verso is divided, and "My father - George H. Koehler, motorman, & Mr. Wm. Theisen, 1906, Detroit, Michigan," is handwritten there.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
