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

[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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A window into the past: [Grand Trunk Western Railroad, ticket office, Detroit, Mich.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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

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Few of the Detroit Publishing Company's views of the city's railroads show the inside of a building, so this interior of a Grand Trunk Western Railroad ticket office stands apart from the exterior and street scenes around it. The Grand Trunk Western was the American arm of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway, and its Detroit operations tied the city to lines running into Canada and across the Midwest. The picture survives as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative, a format that recorded fine detail in interiors where light was limited. The company made its images between roughly 1890 and 1924, and this one dates from the years between 1905 and 1915.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 193 1/2-T" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043715. 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-70486

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