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- Description:
- Grand Trunk Railway engine #1098 in 1906. Location unknown.
- Date Created:
- 1906-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Lakeshore Museum Center
- Collection:
- Lawrence Carlson Collection
- Description:
- Grand Trunk Railway engine #1098 in 1906. Location unknown.
- Date Created:
- 1906-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Lakeshore Museum Center
- Collection:
- Lawrence Carlson Collection
- Description:
- Detroit News publisher, William J. Scripps rides the miniature locomotive built by Chrysler and donated to the Detroit Zoo by the Detroit News. "In 1931 a miniature railway system was donated to the zoo by The Detroit News. William Scripps, president of The Detroit News, made the presentation on opening day and took the first ride, the fare was a nickel, with any profits to be used to maintain the system, as popular as it was, problems also rode the rails: the train often ran off the tracks, when it did, passengers got their nickels back, nearby residents complained of the noise and at one point the train ran on rubber wheels," from Detroit News article, "How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last," by Kay Houston.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-05-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- William Clay Ford and man identified as C.B. King examine model train.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1951-04-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- K.T. Keller, Fred Zeder and William E. Scripps examine the miniature locomotive built by Chrysler and donated to the Detroit Zoo by the Detroit News. "In 1931 a miniature railway system was donated to the zoo by The Detroit News. William Scripps, president of The Detroit News, made the presentation on opening day and took the first ride, the fare was a nickel, with any profits to be used to maintain the system, as popular as it was, problems also rode the rails: the train often ran off the tracks, when it did, passengers got their nickels back, nearby residents complained of the noise and at one point the train ran on rubber wheels," from Detroit News article, "How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last," by Kay Houston.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1929-04-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Detroit News publisher, William J. Scripps rides the miniature locomotive built by Chrysler and donated to the Detroit Zoo by the Detroit News. "In 1931 a miniature railway system was donated to the zoo by The Detroit News. William Scripps, president of The Detroit News, made the presentation on opening day and took the first ride, the fare was a nickel, with any profits to be used to maintain the system, as popular as it was, problems also rode the rails: the train often ran off the tracks, when it did, passengers got their nickels back, nearby residents complained of the noise and at one point the train ran on rubber wheels," from Detroit News article, "How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last," by Kay Houston.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1937-05-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- 36 p. incl. illus., pl., diagrs. 21 cm.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- Baltimore,: Printed by James Young, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- xxiii, 168 p. front., 42 (i.e. 48) pL., 2 maps, tables. 36 cm.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- New York,: Holley & Colburn, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- 20 p. 18 cm.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- [Dupont? Ind.,: and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library