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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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Milwaukee Streetcar

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Description: View down snow-covered streetcar tracks towards a streetcar traveling up an unidentified residential street in Milwaukee.
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View Down Canal Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down Canal Street in New Orleans. View is toward the lake from Camp/Chartres Streets. The first building on the right reads "May's Drug Store". The tw...
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Allen Street Looking North

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Description: View of Allen Street looking north. Streetcars are in the center of the street, and horse-drawn carts are parked on the right side of the street.
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Trolley-train Car

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Description: Ridgewood's first trolley-train car. The car reads, "Patterson - Ridgewood - Suffern."
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Trolley Car

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Description: View down street towards a trolley car which began running in 1933.
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Lake Shore Fast Trolley Line

Date: 1908
Description: Composite of views of a rapid transit trolley crossing a bridge as men stand by and observe. Caption reads: "Scenes on the Lake Shore Fast Trolley Line."
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Trolley Car

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Description: The Lake Line Trolley was the earliest trolley line in the Wyoming Valley. Built in 1866, Lake Line Trolley was a route to Harvey's Lake, the largest natur...
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Mount Lowe Railway's Cable Car

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Description: The cable car on Mount Lowe Railway, existing from 1893-1938, climbing a steep incline in California. Mount Lowe is known for being the only scenic mountai...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

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Description: Elevated, colorized postcard view of a street in a central business district. Streetcar tracks run down the center of the street, and automobiles are drivi...
Postcard

State Street

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Description: Colorized postcard view of a street in a central business district. A streetcar is in the distance and horse-drawn buggies are in the foreground. Caption r...
Postcard

Main Business Section

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Business Section, Waukesha, Wis." A busy street scene with pedestrians, automobiles and buses. A railroad track runs down the ce...

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