Mack Model CL Buses Loading Passengers at a Downtown Intersection, Toledo, Ohio, 1935
01
Artifact Overview
As cities grew, buses became an important part of the urban public transportation system. They could reach people and places between streetcar lines. This photo depicts a bustling downtown Toledo. Buses load passengers at a busy corner in front of a department store. Meanwhile, well-dressed pedestrians wait for a policeman to move the STOP/GO sign in the middle of intersection.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
January 1935
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.1747.M.971
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10.125 in
Width: 8 in
Keywords |
|---|
02
Related Content
SetLesson: Transportation for People and American Attitudes
- 16 Artifacts
Few American cities embraced the automobile like Los Angeles. The southern California metropolis opened the first of its many limited-access freeways in 1940. Work on the Harbor Freeway, seen here, began in the early 1950s. Now designated Interstate 110, this freeway connects the downtown area with the Port of Los Angeles to the south, and with Pasadena to the northeast.