Toll Gate on Mill Road and Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1915
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Artifact Overview
Continuing a practice dating to the late 1700s, some entrepreneurs charged tolls for privately maintained roads. Here, a horse-drawn vehicle lines up behind an automobile at a toll gate in early 20th-century Detroit. Few of these improvised toll roads turned a profit.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1900-1915
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.188.8316
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.438 in
Width: 10.825 in
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