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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the TIONESTA near the shore on the Detroit River. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Apr 12, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the TIONESTA near the shore on the Detroit River. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Apr 12, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- View of the Octorara, a passenger liner of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation with people standing along the rail on the deck.
- 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:
- 1927-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- View of the Detroit River ferry, Pleasure, with passengers standing on decks. "Built 1893, at West Bay City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & Co. Hull, of wood. Length 140 feet; breadth of beam, on water line, 35 feet, top sides 40 feet, on deck 52 feet; depth of hold 15 feet, Aaverage draft of water 12 feet. Engine, three cylinder compound. Diameter 34, 24 and 34 inches, by stroke of 24 inches. Boilers, Scotch each 10 foot sheel and 12 1/2 feet long. Wheel, 4 blades. Diameter 10 feet; pitch 13 feet. The Pleasure was built for the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company, and is a typical Detroit River ferry, the finest ever turned out up to 1894. Speed 16 miles an hour; capacity for a large number of passengers," from the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website.
- 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:
- 1927-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- View of the Octorara, a passenger liner of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation with people standing along the rail on the deck.
- 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:
- 1927-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Jennie writes in her diary of her position as a teacher, as well as her social life and the presence of various diseases in the area. She also writes of time spent aboard a passenger ship on Lake Michigan, possibly the wooden steamship, S.S. City of Grand Rapids
- Date Created:
- 1880-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- View of the Detroit River ferry, Pleasure, with passengers standing on decks. "Built 1893, at West Bay City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & Co. Hull, of wood. Length 140 feet; breadth of beam, on water line, 35 feet, top sides 40 feet, on deck 52 feet; depth of hold 15 feet, average draft of water 12 feet. Engine, three cylinder compound. Diameter 34, 24 and 34 inches, by stroke of 24 inches. Boilers, Scotch each 10 foot sheel and 12 1/2 feet long. Wheel, 4 blades. Diameter 10 feet; pitch 13 feet. The Pleasure was built for the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company, and is a typical Detroit River ferry, the finest ever turned out up to 1894. Speed 16 miles an hour; capacity for a large number of passengers," from the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website.
- 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:
- 1927-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- Theodore Roosevelt wearing top hat, stands in back of horse-drawn vehicle, with crowd of people on passenger boat in background.
- 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:
- 1902-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- View of the Detroit River ferry, Pleasure, with passengers standing on decks. "Built 1893, at West Bay City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & Co. Hull, of wood. Length 140 feet; breadth of beam, on water line, 35 feet, top sides 40 feet, on deck 52 feet; depth of hold 15 feet, Aaverage draft of water 12 feet. Engine, three cylinder compound. Diameter 34, 24 and 34 inches, by stroke of 24 inches. Boilers, Scotch each 10 foot sheel and 12 1/2 feet long. Wheel, 4 blades. Diameter 10 feet; pitch 13 feet. The Pleasure was built for the Detroit, Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company, and is a typical Detroit River ferry, the finest ever turned out up to 1894. Speed 16 miles an hour; capacity for a large number of passengers," from the Maritime History of the Great Lakes website.
- 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:
- 1927-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Description:
- View of the Octorara, a passenger liner of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation with people standing along the rail on the deck.
- 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:
- 1927-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City