Inside view of Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, no vehicles visible. Tiled walls; walkway along road. Printed on front: "4. Detroit-Windsor tunnel. 1A1172." Printed on back: "The Detroit-Windsor tunnel is 5,135 feet in length and cost $25,000,000. It required 2 1/2 years to complete same. The top of the tunnel is 45 feet and the roadway 75 feet underwater. It required 80,000 cubic feet of concrete, 11,000 tons of structural and 750 tons of reenforcing steel. 20,000 granite blocks were used in building the roadway. Capacity is 2000 cars per hour. C.T. American Art Colored. C.T. Co., Chicago."
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Thanks for following! It's crazy seeing the tumblr resurgence lately, since my last milestone was hitting 50k in March. I have a fun tumblr-only art series I really want to do but haven't had a chance yet. I will be posting a bunch of new phone wallpapers sometime soon though.
View of the first Hudson Motor Car Company factory. Label on back: "First Hudson plant. This is the first factory operated by the Hudson Motor Car Company. It was located at the corner of Mack and Beaufait Avenues. In this plant with only 80,000 feet of floor space, 500 men, and a total capital of $20,000, the first Hudson "Twenty" was produced on July 3, 1909. One year later over 4,000 Hudson "Twenties" had been sold, the biggest first year's business in the history of the industry up to that time." Handwritten on back: "1909 Hudson factory. Factories--Hudson."
National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library
I love how dungeons and daddies is, like, one of the biggest dnd podcasts or something but the community online on, like, tumblr and ao3 and TikTok is fucking tiny because a majority of the fan base is comprised of actual adults in their 30s with children and jobs and none of them have the time to do more than support them on Patreon and not know how discord works