Description:
Postcard showing a photo of East Main Street (now East Michigan Avenue) looking east from the corner of Jefferson St. (now Capital Avenue) c. 1910. Note Old National Bank Building on corner, the modern location of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation headquarters. Interurbans were electric light railroads which connected all of the major cities in Michigan from the 1890's into the 1930's when they were phased out due to increased use of automobiles. In the countryside the electric cars were powered by a third rail system and in the cities generally by overhead electric wires.
Caption on front: BANK CORNER BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 111.