"Woodward Avenue in Winter Attire," Streetcar and Pedestrians, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1900
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Artifact Overview
Electrics streetcars started to replace horse-drawn streetcars as cities built power stations in the late 1800s. They carried more passengers and were cheaper and cleaner to operate than horse-drawn streetcars. This is Detroit's Woodward Avenue line, about 1900.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
circa 1900
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.DPC.033767
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Toning (Photography)
Color
Brown
Dimensions
Height: 7 in
Width: 9 in
Inscriptions
On verso, handwritten in ink: 2444
On verso, handwritten in pencil: Mich. / A Frosty morning on Woodward Ave. Detroit [a blue grease pencil has crossed out these words] and handwritten in a circle: 033767
On verso, handwritten in pencil (at a later date, probably 1950s): 5[in circle] 5-526
On verso, handwritten in pencil (at a later date, 1977): [in square brackets] -[B79090 10-4-77] [Detroit, Mich., ca. 1900]
In grease pencil on verso: 033767 X
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