Digital Collection
2012.020.665

Postcard

Waiting Room in Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

Color postcard depicting the waiting room in the Michigan Central Station, filled with carved wood benches.
Printed on verso: Waiting Room in Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich. The New Michigan Central Station is located near Michigan Avenue, between fifteenth and seventeenth Streets, covers twenty-one acres and the total cost is $15,000,000.00. There will be eleven tracks in the station that will accommodate 135 passenger coaches. It will have all conveniences, such as a complete Drug Store with special facilities for the care of Invalids and Change Room where travelers can at nominal cost obtain Shower Baths and make a change of clothing. Accommodations for passengers will not be outdone by any Railroad Station in the World.
Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 2, 1923.

Date
1923
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