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[Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.] – Historic Print

[Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.], [between 1905 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots 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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A window into the past: [Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Michigan Central Railroad station, Ann Arbor, Mich.]

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The Michigan Central depot in Ann Arbor is the subject here, captured on an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between 1905 and 1915. The Michigan Central was one of the major rail lines serving the Midwest, and its stations were often the most prominent buildings in the towns they served, drawing travelers, freight, and local crowds to the platform. Detroit Publishing Company photographers traveled widely to document such scenes for commercial postcards and sales catalogs, so the plate offers a glimpse of how a small Michigan college town presented itself to the rail traveler in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 84 Bur" [Burridge] on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039655. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsRailroad stations.United States--Michigan--Ann Arbor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69269

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