Workmen Standing outside Smiths Creek Depot at its Original Site, Smiths Creek, Michigan, circa 1898
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The railroad station was a center of 19th-century small-town life. This photo shows a crowd of people gathered at Smiths Creek Depot, at its original site about nine miles southwest of Port Huron, Michigan. Henry Ford purchased the depot from the Grand Trunk Western Railway in 1929, and he relocated it to his Greenfield Village museum complex.
The railroad station was a center of 19th-century small-town life. This photo shows a crowd of people gathered at Smiths Creek Depot, at its original site about nine miles southwest of Port Huron, Michigan. Henry Ford purchased the depot from the Grand Trunk Western Railway in 1929, and he relocated it to his Greenfield Village museum complex.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1898
Creators
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.1801
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 6.375 in
Width: 8.500 in
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