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- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Windsor approach to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Sep 15, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an elevated view along Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, facing north towards the Detroit River. Commercial buildings line the street which is filled with streetcars. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked May 26, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting a view along Ouellette Avenue in Windsor, facing north towards a ferry in the Detroit River. Commercial buildings and pedestrians line the street.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting an electric train engine with men crowded onto it at the Windsor entrance to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. Printed on verso: Electric Engine, Detroit, Mich. The Detroit River Tunnel was built for the M. C. R. R. at a cost of $8,500,000. It is 1 3/8 miles in length. Construction was started in July 1906 and completed July 1, 1910. Electricity, the third rail system, furnishes the motive power for the engines. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Aug 20, 1912.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Postcard
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of a saw mill beside several sets of railroad tracks in Windsor, taken during the construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. Boards and logs are piled beside the tracks. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "177-22, Saw Mill Windsor, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of the opening of a small shaft using in constructing the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A small cart used to haul gravel is on tracks running from the mouth of the shaft up an incline toward the camera. Railroad tracks run along the bottom of a cut to the right of the shaft. Two figures stand among construction debris in the background. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "158, Hauling Gravel up incline No. 3 Shaft, Windsor, 5/28/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken of stacks of lumber piled in Windsor for the construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel between Detroit and Windsor below the Detroit River. Utility lines run behind the pile. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "247, Lumber Piles 200' S. of Sta. 210, 6/11/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo of stacks of pile conduits beside railroad tracks in Windsor, taken during the construction of the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "Pile Conduits 100' S of Sta. 201, 6/11/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken close to ground level of the foot of the Sandwich Street (now Riverside Drive) bridge over the Canadian Pacific Railway lines near Windsor's riverfront. A pile of gravel evens out the seam between the road and the bridge. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "395, Settlement of Sandwich St. Bridge, Sta. 187, 11/18/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services
- Description:
- Digital scan of a sepia-toned photo taken of stacks of logs piled on the side of the railroad cut leading to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel from the Windsor side, during its construction. A small cart on rails and a crane are on the left. A caption printed along the bottom left reads, "317-36, Looking N. from Sta. 219, 6/25/07."
- Date Issued:
- 1907-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Municipal Services