1979.20

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passenger%20ticket%20for%20Messrs.%20Tringham%20%26%20Boomer%27s%20Electric%20Railway

Details

ID Number

1979.20

Category

Communication Artifacts

Sub-category

exchange medium

Item Name

ticket

Maker

Tringham & Boomer's Electric Railway

Materials

PAPER, UNKNOWN

Measurements

overall: 2 in x 3 5/8 in

Description

Rectangular paper; cream-coloured with black printing and red perforation lines; perforated into 4 tickets.

History

Passenger ticket for Messrs. Tringham & Boomer's Electric Railway, which was in operation between 1882 and 1886, when it was purchased by the Sandwich and Amherstburg Railway. It ran from Brock Street in Windsor to Walkerville. It was supposedly the first electric railway in the world.

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Belle Isle (Mich.) / Île Belle (Mich.) place

Boomer, William person

Detroit (Mich.) place

Essex County Historical Society organization

Transportation / Transport subject

Tringham, J. W. person

Walkerville (Ont.) place

Windsor (Ont.) place

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