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