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[Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.]

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A ticket office interior, rather than an exterior view of a station, is the particular focus here: a Grand Trunk Western Railroad counter in Detroit, shown as a working room where travelers bought passage. The Grand Trunk Western operated lines in the Detroit area, and its ticket offices were busy places where clerks handled fares and schedules for passengers heading across Michigan and beyond. The picture was made on an 8 x 10 inch glass negative between about 1905 and 1915, when the Detroit Publishing Company was documenting the city and its surrounding region. Interior views like this one are less common than station exteriors, so they offer a useful glimpse of how railroad business was conducted in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 193-T" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043716. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70487

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