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Group of costumed passengers outside the Grand Trunk Railroad Station, c. 1911

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dc.coverage.temporal Battle Creek. Michigan, circa 1911 en_US
dc.identifier.other LPC-030-009-004 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/12581
dc.description Postcard showing a group of people in costume in front of the Grand Trunk Railroad Depot, c. 1911. 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: Is this the goat you rode? Just arrived at Battle Creek, Mich. No. 4. W.O.W. Convention - 1911. Written on back: B Creek Train Station in Background en_US
dc.format.medium b&w postcard en_US
dc.language.iso En en_US
dc.subject Railroads and Depots - Grand Trunk en_US
dc.subject Organizations - Workers of the World en_US
dc.subject Labor en_US
dc.subject Grand Trunk Railroad, Michigan Central Railroad, Train Wrecks en_US
dc.title Group of costumed passengers outside the Grand Trunk Railroad Station, c. 1911 en_US
dc.type Image en_US


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