Transportation

Edward Connor Papers

drice — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:14:14 -0500

Mr. Connor served with the Public Works Administration in Gary, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois (1935-43). He was executive director of the Detroit Citizens Housing and Planning Council (1943-48), a member of the Detroit Common Council (1948-66), chairman of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors (1954- 58), and a Detroit Recorder's Court judge (1966-1967). Mr. Connor also served as secretary of the Southeastern Michigan Community Research Corporation (1958-63), director of the National Association of County Officials (1959), and as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Urban Health Affairs (1963-64). Subjects include Works Progress Administration; Adult and Workers Education (1935-43); civic, housing, health, transportation, and industrial problems of the Detroit metropolitan area (1943-66); urban health problems in Russia (1964); election campaigns for Detroit Council (1948-65); primary election for governor of Michigan (1960); Recorder's Court election (1966). Correspondents include Al Barbour, Edward Carey, Jerome P. Cavanagh, Eleanor Coit, John Dingell, Philip Hart, Nicholas Hood, Frank Kelly, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Frank Martel, Mel Ravitz, Roy Reuther, Dorothy K. Roosevelt, and G. Mennen Williams.

Detroit Renaissance Records

drice — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:28:41 -0400

The City of Detroit had difficulty rebuilding after the riots of 1967, as its population dwindled,
along with available capital and a supply of suitable housing, which suffered from neglect and abandonment. The Detroit Renaissance, a non-profit organization of business and community leaders, was formed in 1970 by the chief executives of the region's most influential employers to focus on the re-development of Detroit. Promoting urban renewal, this Southeast Michigan business roundtable created a series of programs helping to support virtually every major development project in Detroit, playing a major role in coordinating their funding. During the 2000's, the organization evolved and expanded its focus on regional issues while continuing its support for Detroit's redevelopment. In 2009 the roundtable was united with others across Michigan to form the group, Business Leaders for Michigan.

This collection predominantly contains newspaper clippings on projects and topics related to urban renewal, riverfront development, and living in Detroit during the years of 1974-1993. The rest of the collection is made up of organizational records and materials given to executive members of Detroit Renaissance from 1970-2002. Record types from this section include formal reports, promotional brochures, meeting minutes from various committees within Detroit Renaissance, and budgetary materials. Topics covered include development within Detroit, a proposed riverfront sports arena, and discussions on how to stabilize the city financially. A portion of Detroit Renaissance projects contained in this collection are: Detroit Strategic Plan, Harmonie Park, Renaissance Center, Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Detroit PeopleMover, and the Cobo Hall Expansion.

Margean Gladysz Papers

drice — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:40:43 -0400

Upon completion of her college studies, Margean Gladysz was employed as a Company Inspector by the Great Lakes Greyhound Company from the years 1946-1949. Gladysz was from Kalamazoo, Michigan and took up the job to earn money for graduate school. During the period that Gladysz worked for the company, buses could be hailed from the road, and passengers paid their cash fare to the bus driver. Bus companies were concerned that drivers were not issuing cash-fare tickets and were pocketing the money. Companies were also concerned about road safety, and the handling of expensive equipment. Employing inspectors helped the companies combat these issues and make sure their employed drivers were honest and safe on the road. During the years of her employment, Gladysz sent back reports to the company, as well as letters home, detailing her experiences on the road. These letters often included a wealth of information about 1940’s American transportation, including hotel prices and the attitudes of locals Gladysz may have come across on her travels. At the end of three years on the road, Gladysz decided to return home and settle down; she married, and had two children. When her children were old enough, she returned to her alma mater, Western Michigan University, to complete a graduate degree in school librarianship.

The papers of Margean Gladysz are predominantly typed copies of letters home that extensively document her experiences on the road from 1946-1949. Also included are reports she sent back to the company and materials outlining her role as a company inspector. Gladysz used these materials to write her book, A Spy on the Bus, which is also in the collection.

Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) Records

drice — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:43:34 -0400

SEMCOG grew out of primarily the Detroit Metropolitan Area Regional Planning Commission (DRPC) and the Supervisors Inter-County Committee (SICC) in an effort to consolidate regional planning agencies and avoid duplication of programs and services. SEMCOG has continued its predecessors' work of assisting local planning programs, collecting area planning data, and providing an infrastructure for procurement of federal aid.

Records in Part I document SEMCOG's predecessor, the DRPC, and its transition to and early operation of the Planning Division of SEMCOG, through the office files of Paul Reid, Executive Director at the time of transition. Contained therein are findings of various planning projects and studies conducted by the two entities.

Records in Part II relate primarily to the administration of SEMCOG and the environmental, transportation, and economic issues it dealt with.

Records in Part III related to SEMCOG's work in environment, transportation, and urban planning. Documented are the activities of executive directors John Amberger and Paul Tait, and the Executive and Advisory Council from SEMCOG's inception through 2003. The records of the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition (MAC) a private-sector sister organization to SEMCOG are also included.

(3035) Portraits, Mayor Albert Cobo, Freeways, Detroit, 1956

eclemens — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:17:53 -0400

Mayor Albert Cobo stands on a overpass above the Lodge/Ford Freeway. In the background the Fisher Building is in view.

(6562) Strikes, San Francisco Street Car Strike, 1907

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:33:50 -0500

A unidentified man assists an injured strikebreaker in a tram during the San Francisco Street Car Strike.

A caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Riots during the street car strike in San Francisco resulted in the injury of 40 strike breakers, of whom four were shot and one was killed. What casualties the strikers suffered are not known. The photo shows an injured strike-breaking motor man being removed from his car by fellow strike breakers. Ten strike breakers were injured in this car’s dash through the rioters. Bricks, pieces of gas pipe, bottles and missiles of all sorts used by the strikers as ammunition can be seen.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6563) Strikes, Indianapolis Street Car Strike, Violence, 1912

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:40:27 -0500

Onlookers remove an injured strikebreaker from inside of a tram destroyed in the Indianapolis Street Car Strike. Six men were seriously injured and one man was killed during this particular incident.

(6570) Strikes, New Orleans Street Car Strike, Violence, 1929

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:27:12 -0500

The scene along Canal street during the New Orleans Street Car Strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A series of tumultuous riots in which two striking carmen were seriously wounded by bullets and scores of other persons were less seriously hurt, marked the attempt of the New Orleans Public Service to resume street car service and stirred all New Orleans to a pitch of tense excitement. The riot reached a climax when strikers and their sympathizers wrecked several of the public service buildings and set fire to a trolley.”

Photograoph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6578) Strikes, Transportation, Truck Drivers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934

eclemens — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:10:42 -0500

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Police and pickets of the striking truck drivers union battling in the market district of Minneapolis on May 21 when strikers attempted to halt trucks engaged in delivering perishable food stuffs.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6579) Strikes, Violence, Truck Drivers, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1934

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:05:16 -0500

Crowds gather around the wounded after a clash between strikers and police officers during the Minneapolis truck drivers strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Policemen and strikers alike were clubbed down as riots continued in connection with the walkout of Minneapolis, MN truck drivers. The toll of wounded in two days’ battling stood at 56, with 36 of these injured during the renewal of fighting May 21. Most of those injured were strikers. In photo strikers and police are shown in one of their sanguine clashes. One policeman was slashed with a knife.”

Photo Courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6589) Strikes, Violence, Street Car Strike, South Omaha, Nebraska, 1935

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:33:11 -0500

A view of a smoking and charred street car, destroyed during the South Omaha street car strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “South Omaha, NE street car union strikers and sympathizers burned five cars, and one man was killed and at least 16 wounded resisting police orders to disperse. As a result of the rioting, the National Guard was called out. Photo shows two of the street cars going up in flames.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6597) Strikes, Violence, Street Car Workers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:20:29 -0500

A police officer escorts an injured man out of an unidentified building during the Philadelphia street car strike.

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6598) Strikes, AFL, William Green, Railroad Workers, New York, 1930s

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:42:03 -0500

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “Testifying with gestures, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, is pictured before the Emergency Board appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the underlying causes of the threatened strike of 25,000 railroad employees here. The dispute involves the brotherhood of railroad men; 11 railroads and a longshore men’s union.”

(6599) Strikes, Transportation Workers, New York, 1927

eclemens — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:47:03 -0500

A group of men, possibly hire strikebreakers, enjoy a meal in a makeshift restaurant during the New York transportation dispute of 1927.

Caption from the back of the photograph reads: “All plans have been laid by the I.R.T. [Inter-borough Rapid Transit company] for handling the threatened transit tie-up in the event that the company’s men walkout. Subway officials and leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees hastened preparations for a determined fight. Strikebreakers are being held in readiness to fill the places left vacant by the strikers.”

Photograph courtesy of the William Levinson Collection

(28667) Mayor Young, Transportation, Streetcars, 1976

eclemens — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:44:19 -0400

Mayor Coleman Young and Secretary of Transportation Coleman preside over the return of trolley car service to the downtown area.

Streetcar service was discontinued in 1956, however in 1976 four newly restored cars were brought over from Lisbon, Portrugal to serve the Washington Boulevard area, mainly as a tourist attraction. The service was suspended in 2003.

(28668) Mayor Coleman Young, Streetcars, Transportation, 1976

eclemens — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:50:26 -0400

Mayor Coleman Young and Secretary of Transportation Coleman preside over the return of trolley car service to the downtown area.

(28670) Mayor Coleman Young, Streetcars, Transportation, 1976

eclemens — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:52:51 -0400

Mayor Coleman Young and Secretary of Transportation Coleman preside over the return of trolley car service to the downtown area.

Brotherhood of Railway Clerks Bulletin

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:11:08 -0400

Processed

Convention Proceedings, Brotherhood of Railway Carmen

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:17:00 -0400

Processed. Conventions 20-23.

Convention Proceedings, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:08:22 -0400

Processed

In Transit

kchinery — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:02:43 -0400

Processed. Bound volumes: 1962-1971 (Vols. 70-79). Loose issues: Jan. 1972-Jun. 1975, Jan. 1977- Jul./Aug. 1993. Missing issues: Nov. 1973; Feb., Jun. 1974; Jul.-Dec. 1975; all 1976; Feb.-Jun., Sep. 1977; Jan.-Feb. 1978; Apr., Jun. 1981.

Interchange

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:59:27 -0400

Unprocessed

Labor: A National Weekly Newspaper

kchinery — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:57:38 -0500

Unprocessed. Vols. 1, 3-71. “An official paper of 18 Unions representing railroad, airline, and other workers in both the U.S. and Canada.”

Passenger Transport

kchinery — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:19:35 -0400

Processed. Vol. 20:37. Jerome P. Cavanagh Library Collection.

Railroad Trainman

kchinery — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:59:54 -0400

Processed. Vols. 56-65

The Black Worker

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:03:15 -0400

Processed

The Motorman, Conductor and Motor Coach Operator

kchinery — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:06:35 -0400

Processed. Vols. 2-4, 12-44, 47-49, 62-69. Missing: Vols. 1, 5-11, 45-46, 50-61.

UTU News

kchinery — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:01:50 -0400

Unprocessed

Winning Edge

kchinery — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:14:06 -0400

Unprocessed