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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Streetcar and crew of the Madison City Railways Company. The streetcar number is #50 and the route sign says Wingra Park. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking northwest along the 100 block of South Blair Street. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 02 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Six men posing with the first trackless trolley. Wisconsin Valley Electric Company #4. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men working on trolley car electrical wires (catenary) in the middle of a street. The men are standing on a platform in the back of an International Mo... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 06 1947 |
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| Description: | A family boarding a route #40 streetcar. A sign on the front of the car advertises midget auto racing at the State Fair grounds; the second urges people to... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue, with five streetcars and a team of horses in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
| Date: | 09 20 1953 |
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| Description: | A posed photograph taken for the Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. to mark the substitution of buses for streetcars on the West Burnham Street line. |
| Date: | 06 10 1906 |
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| Description: | View of car #466, which was then one of Milwaukee's newest streetcars. The car was put in service by TMERL about 1905 and was rebuilt as a duplex car in 1... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A TMERL streetcar on the Delaware and Oakland line advertising special 1905 rates (25 for a dollar or 6 for 25 cents) and universal transfers. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Automobile traffic, with a street railroad car in the background, on a rainy day. |
| Date: | 08 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Driver sitting in an International truck operated by the Mobiloil Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "The World's Quality Oil." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A view looking east along East Wilson Street with the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul East Madison railroad station, 501 East Wilson Street, on the right.... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Looking east down East Milwaukee Street. Commercial intersection in downtown, with pedestrians walking across the street over street-railroad tracks. The ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee streetcar conductors posed in front of streetcars. Edwin Salber shown second row fifth person from the left. |
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