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Grand Trunk Railroad Station, c. 1909

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dc.coverage.temporal Battle Creek. Michigan, circa 1909 en_US
dc.identifier.other LPC-030-011-003 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/12580
dc.description Color Postcard showing a photo of the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot 175 Main Street, Battle Creek, c. 1909. View from the east, looking westward along the building. This large depot was designed by the architectural firm of Spier and Rohns and built in 1905 at a cost of $100,000. It was used as a passenger station by the Grand Trunk Railroad until 1971 when passenger service was taken over by Amtrak. The building was used as office space until 1988 when it was taken over by the Community Action Agency to be used for regional human service programming. Caption on front: Grand Trunk Depot, Battle Creek, Mich. Written on back: Just playing a short [illegible] here Ed Sent to: Harry Talmage Lansing, Mich 326 N. Logan 37 Sent on: November 29, 1909 en_US
dc.format.medium color postcard en_US
dc.language.iso En en_US
dc.subject Railroads and Depots - Grand Trunk en_US
dc.subject Grand Trunk Railroad, Michigan Central Railroad, Train Wrecks en_US
dc.title Grand Trunk Railroad Station, c. 1909 en_US
dc.type Image en_US


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