Workers Laying Interurban Streetcar Tracks, Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1910

Summary

Michigan's Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson interurban railway opened to Dearborn -- 10 miles west of Detroit -- in 1897. This photograph shows workers laying track on Michigan Avenue, the main road between Detroit and Dearborn. The interurban reached Jackson -- 80 miles west of Detroit -- in 1902. Other interurbans connected Detroit with Port Huron and Flint, and with Toledo, Ohio.

Michigan's Detroit, Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor & Jackson interurban railway opened to Dearborn -- 10 miles west of Detroit -- in 1897. This photograph shows workers laying track on Michigan Avenue, the main road between Detroit and Dearborn. The interurban reached Jackson -- 80 miles west of Detroit -- in 1902. Other interurbans connected Detroit with Port Huron and Flint, and with Toledo, Ohio.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1910

Creators

Unknown

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.B.41176

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 8.125 in

Width: 10 in

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