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- 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:
- Sheet music for the "Blue Line Galop", composed by Roe Stephens, published by J. Henry Whittemore. Dedicated to J. D. Hayes, esq., general manager of the "Blue Line".
- Date Issued:
- 1867-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Music
- 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:
- Four panel brochure promoting the Detroit International Exposition and Fair held from September 17th to the 27th of 1889. The recto bears a color Calvert Lithograph Company illustration of Detroit, as viewed from the air above Delray, facing northeast, captioned "All Roads Will Lead to Detroit in September. Why? (see over)." The exposition site, containing the large Main Building, several smaller structures, and two ponds, is at the lower right corner of the image, to the west of Fort Wayne. The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad; Detroit and Bay City Railroad; Michigan Central Railroad; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway; Wabash Railroad; Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway; Belt Line; and Lake Erie, Essex and Detroit River Railway lines are all labeled, as are the communities along the Canadian side of the Detroit River--Walkerville, Windsor, Sandwich, and Mineral Spring. The verso several passages about the importance of Detroit, the expo, the expo's Main Building, music to be provided by Signor C.A. Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band, and attractions including livestock, the Art Gallery, the Floral Palace, the Industrial and Mechanical Halls. A "Sinclair, Evans, and Elliott, Detroit, Mich." stamp is on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1889-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Schedule booklet for the Detroit Merchants and Manufacturers First Michigan Trip beginning November 28th, and ending December 2nd, 1898. A passage inside the booklet explains the purpose of the trip to being to allow members of the Detroit Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange to meet their customers around the state. The Michigan Central Railroad Depot on the corner of Third Avenue and Jefferson Avenue is pictured on the cover. The itinerary within lists arrival and departure times for the towns along the route. The itinerary uses the Michigan Central Railroad, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Grand Trunk Railroad, Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad, and the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western Railroad. The booklet is bound with both staples and glue.
- Date Issued:
- 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- General History
- 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
- Notes:
- 464 p. incl. illus., tables. 20cm. and "Authorities referred to": p. [5]-6.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- New York, Chicago,: A. S. Barnes & company and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- 19 p. : fold. map. and Walter C. Kerr, chairman.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- [New York] :: The Merchants' association of New York, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
- Notes:
- xxiii, [25]-442 p ; 20 cm. and Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 1996. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan. Libraries
- Collection:
- New York,: Harper & brothers, and Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library