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History of street cars: from horse to electric.Created by: PICRYL - Public Domain Media Search EngineDated: 1890
Street car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Streetcars or trolley or tram were once the chief mode of public transit in hundreds of cities and towns. From the 1820s to the 1880s urban transit in many cities began with horse-drawn omnibus lines. Horsecar lines ran wagons along rails set in a city so the rolling resistance of the vehicle is lowered and the speed increased.

North America's first streetcar lines opened in 1832 from downtown New York City to Harlem by the New York and Harlem Railroad, in 1834 in New Orleans, and in 1849 in Toronto along the Williams Omnibus Bus Line.

In many cities, mule-drawn or horse-drawn streetcars drawn by a single animal were known as "bobtail streetcars". By the mid-1880s, there were 415 street railway companies in the U.S. operating over 6,000 miles (9,700 km) of track and carrying 188 million passengers per year using animal-drawn cars.

In the 1860s, streetcar operators started switched from animals to steam engines or cable power. San Francisco's cable car system continues to operate to this day. After 1893 electricity-powered cars dominate. Los Angeles built the largest electric tramway system in the world, which grew to over 1600 km of track. The rapid growth of streetcar systems led to the widespread ability of people to live outside of a city and commute into it for work on a daily basis. By 1895 almost 900 electric street railways and nearly 11,000 miles (18,000 km) of track had been built in the United States.

The Great Depression of the 1930s led to the closure of many streetcar lines in North America. By the 1960s most North American streetcar lines were closed.
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Street car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Street car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, Washington, D.C.

Street car wreck, 8th & F NE, Washington, D.C.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Waiting for streetcar, Chicago, Illinois

Waiting for streetcar, Chicago, Illinois

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Office of War Informati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Locomotive Riva-Bella, Public domain image

Locomotive Riva-Bella, Public domain image

600mm gauge tram in Ouistreham Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

San Francisco Cable Railway, Washington & Mason Streets, San Francisco...

also CAL, 38-SANFRA-137-A- San Francisco Railway: Cable Car Powerhouse & Barn Significance: The last operating cable railroad in the world. Representative of an important type of urban transportation system in... More

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Emma Goldman on a street car]. Photo by Bain News Service collection

[Emma Goldman on a street car]. Photo by Bain News Service collection

Photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Cong... More

A black and white photo of a train yard, possibly related to: Streetcars in car yard, Minneapolis, Minnesota

A black and white photo of a train yard, possibly related to: Streetca...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

CROYDON HIGH STREET VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram Nicely Animated surrey

CROYDON HIGH STREET VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram Nicely Animated s...

Mark Crombie, Flickr vintage topographical postcards collection. Public domain scan of vintage postcard, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Le Touquet - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Le Touquet - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

the golf tram. Post card view Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oilers at streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oilers at streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of monorail car, City Island

Interior of monorail car, City Island

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

A black and white photo of a train going down the tracks. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train going down the tracks. Office of Wa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - New Orleans, La. , Sep. 3, 2007 -- During Hurricane Katrina, the red streetcars were stored in the Canal Street facility where they were inundated with almost 60 inches of floodwater. FEMA allocated $21. 6 million towards the restoration of New Orleans red streetcars. Photo by FEMA/Ralph Simcox

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - New Orleans, La. , Sep. 3, 2007 -- During H...

The original database describes this as: Title: RTA Street Cars (After) Production Date: 09/03/2007 Caption: New Orleans, La. , Sep. 3, 2007 -- During Hurricane Katrina, the red streetcars were stored in the... More

CROYDON NORTH END VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram SURREY

CROYDON NORTH END VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram SURREY

Mark Crombie, Flickr vintage topographical postcards collection. Public domain scan of vintage postcard, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] members on street-car on dirt road in town of Dunedin

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] members on street-car on di...

Public domain vintage photo of New Zealand, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The story of the trolley car. July Century

The story of the trolley car. July Century

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1905

Street car wreck, Eckington - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Street car wreck, Eckington - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Commercial loft buildings; horse drawn streetcars; telegraph wires

Commercial loft buildings; horse drawn streetcars; telegraph wires

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton Streets Philadelphia / F. Moras fe.

Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton St...

Print shows an advertisement for the Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, with side views of a railroad passenger car and a city street-railroad passenger car that is passing P.S. Duval's lithogr... More

Thomas Flyer participating in New York-to-Paris automobile race driving behind a streetcar during the winter

Thomas Flyer participating in New York-to-Paris automobile race drivin...

Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iraq. Kadimain, third holy city of the Shite Moslems i.e., Muslims. Horse tram. Between Kadimain and Baghdad

Iraq. Kadimain, third holy city of the Shite Moslems i.e., Muslims. Ho...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Streetcars at terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Streetcars at terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cable car nears the top of Hyde Street, San Francisco, California

Cable car nears the top of Hyde Street, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Tram no 1888 Christchurch., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Tram no 1888 Christchurch., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Manufacturer: Clyde Engineering at Granville, NSW, Australia.. Seating: 48. Length: 14.35m Weight: 18 tonnes.. Trucks:Sydney No. 12. Air brake cylinders mounted on bogies.. Fleet: 195 x R class trams and 155 x ... More

Wolverton. Stratford Road  46882 by Valentine's. Tram. 1908

Wolverton. Stratford Road 46882 by Valentine's. Tram. 1908

Mark Crombie, Flickr vintage topographical postcards collection. Public domain scan of vintage postcard, England, United Kingdom, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Constable on car - Dublin - Public domain portrait photograph

Constable on car - Dublin - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows a streetcar in Dublin, Ireland. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of C... More

Fresh air outing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Fresh air outing, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo probably shows mothers and their children in trolley car heading to ferry which took them to Sea Breeze, Coney Island, on a trip sponsored by the Fresh Air Home of the New York Association for Improving t... More

Trolley Turning onto Bunker Hill Street from Chelsea Street

Trolley Turning onto Bunker Hill Street from Chelsea Street

This photograph is a view of a trolley at the intersection of Chelsea Street and Bunker Hill Street. Theodore Crawford v. Boston Elevated Railway Company

U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Street car with prevent fires sign in Portland, Oregon

U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Street car with prevent fires sign in Portla...

Logbook annotation: Copying for National Chamber of Commerce. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who work... More

[Muni light rail transit car at Embarcadero, with Bay Bridge in background. San Francisco, California]

[Muni light rail transit car at Embarcadero, with Bay Bridge in backgr...

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Broadway, the busy thoroughfare of America, New York City, U.S.A.

Broadway, the busy thoroughfare of America, New York City, U.S.A.

Stereograph showing businesses and busy downtown street crowded with pedestrians, shoppers, streetcars, and horse and carts. Copyright 1897 by T.D. Rust. On mount: Sold only by the World Stereoscopic Co., Londo... More

C1-class Melbourne tram.. Bernard Spragg photography

C1-class Melbourne tram.. Bernard Spragg photography

The E-class trams are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams that were first introduced to the Melbourne tram network in 2013. They are being built by Bombardier's Dandenong factory, with the propulsion sy... More

State Street, Chicago. Stereoscopic card of Chicago, IL, 19th century.

State Street, Chicago. Stereoscopic card of Chicago, IL, 19th century.

H70159 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4463. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Como-Harriet Streetcar Line & Trolley Car No. 265, Forty-second Street West at Queen Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Como-Harriet Streetcar Line & Trolley Car No. 265, Forty-second Street...

Survey number: HAER MN-42 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street-car going down hill -  Dunedin

Street-car going down hill - Dunedin

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... More

When President Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama Canal in 1906

When President Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama Canal in 1906

Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith, both dressed in white, seated on a flag draped railroad tram; others accompany the Roosevelts on their tour of the Panama Canal Zone. Wide Wor... More

New Double-deck Streetcar - N.Y

New Double-deck Streetcar - N.Y

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

A view showing the business district of Smyrna

A view showing the business district of Smyrna

Photograph showing horse drawn carts & trolleys on a busy street in the Izmir business district. Title taken from item. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Ne... More

A black and white photo of a train in a station. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a train in a station. Office of War Informa...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Street car at a stop enroute to the Golden Gate Bridge past the Presidio

Street car at a stop enroute to the Golden Gate Bridge past the Presid...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Francisco State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public C... More

Cities:  New Orleans, Louisiana

Cities: New Orleans, Louisiana

Photographer: David Valdez; HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 4/23/2001 - 12/6/2008 Cities: New Orleans, Louisiana

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 2-4-06 -- This Streetcar is being pulled by a truck because there is no electric power. New Orleans transit authorities are repairing tracks and lines to get the Streetcars back in operation.  New Orleans streetcar lines are being repaired with Public Assistance (PA) funding from FEMA.  MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo

[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA, 2-4-06 -- This Streetcar is being...

Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Melbourne Bombardier Trams., Bernard Spragg Photo

Melbourne Bombardier Trams., Bernard Spragg Photo

The FLEXITY Swift 100% low-floor vehicles can accommodate 210 passengers. The trams are 33 m long, 2.65 m wide and are equipped with the reliable BOMBARDIER MITRAC propulsion system and rotating bogies to handl... More

BRIGHTON CORPORATION TRAM IN STREET VINTAGE PHOTO POSTCARD Driver & Conductor

BRIGHTON CORPORATION TRAM IN STREET VINTAGE PHOTO POSTCARD Driver & Co...

Mark Crombie, Flickr vintage topographical postcards collection. Public domain scan of vintage postcard, trams, United Kingdom, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hong Kong Transport, Bernard Spragg Photo

Hong Kong Transport, Bernard Spragg Photo

Hong Kong Island is served by a privately operated tramway line that runs east - west across the island between the suburbs of Kennedy Town and Shau Kei Wan. The system also has a single track loop line branch ... More

Icon Cable Car San Francisco, public domain photograph

Icon Cable Car San Francisco, public domain photograph

The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system. An icon of San Francisco, California, the cable car system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network ...

Boise, Idaho, gelatin silver print,  Panoramic Photograph

Boise, Idaho, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

J134324 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Trowbridge & Niver Co.; November 8, 1909; DLC/PP-1910:43940. Photographer's address: Chicago. No. 7.

Street car - the Hague, Holland

Street car - the Hague, Holland

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Street car bus, London Transit Ontario Canada

Street car bus, London Transit Ontario Canada

Date: 1915.Place: London, Ont..Creator: John Boyd.Reference Code: C 7-3, 12617.Archives of Ontario, I0003534

Tram no.18 - A black and white photo of a trolley on a street

Tram no.18 - A black and white photo of a trolley on a street

heading up Macquarie St at the GPO, mid 1930's Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street car, Washington, D.C.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Street car, Washington, D.C.. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Title from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Railroad & Street Railroad. Formerly in SSF Street railroads. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Vie... More

Harvey Isaac's Ice cream parlor & trolley station, Chapman Beach, Conn.

Harvey Isaac's Ice cream parlor & trolley station, Chapman Beach, Conn...

Photograph shows The Shore Line Electric Railway Company, no. 2 streetcar with passengers on board parked next to ice cream parlor with woman standing on porch.

Strike breakers -- broken trolley

Strike breakers -- broken trolley

Photograph probably taken during the streetcar strike in New York City which took place in July and August of 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Serv... More

Crowd entering street car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Crowd entering street car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Cablecar turnaround.San Francisco., Bernard Spragg Photo

Cablecar turnaround.San Francisco., Bernard Spragg Photo

Stand awhile at Powell and Market Sts and spot arriving cable-car operators leaping out, gripping the trolleys' chassis and slooowly rotating the car atop a revolving wooden platform. Cable cars can't go backwa... More

[Patrick Street (i.e., St. Patrick Street), Cork. County Cork, Ireland]

[Patrick Street (i.e., St. Patrick Street), Cork. County Cork, Ireland...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12107". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts]

[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts]

18509 or 18510 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Suffrage open air meeting at the National Capitol demanding that Congress pass the National woman suffrage amendment-- Feb. 1913. Corner Penn. Ave. and 15th St. where the Washington Hotel now stands.

Suffrage open air meeting at the National Capitol demanding that Congr...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with crowds of people, bicyclist, trolleys and cars. Speakers on sidewalk platform at building at corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St., Was... More

Inside View of Trolley Car - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photograph

Inside View of Trolley Car - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...

This photograph is a view of the inside of a trolley car. Theodore Crawford v. Boston Elevated Railway Company

United States flag over street car "special" for American correspondents at Gablonz, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia

United States flag over street car "special" for American corresponden...

No. 24647. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calgary C Train., Bernard Spragg Photo

Calgary C Train., Bernard Spragg Photo

On May 25, 1981, Calgary Transit became one of the first transit systems in North America (behind Edmonton LRT which opened in 1978) to operate a light rail system — the C-Train, on which construction had begun... More

Como-Harriet Streetcar Line & Trolley Car No. 265, Forty-second Street West at Queen Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Como-Harriet Streetcar Line & Trolley Car No. 265, Forty-second Street...

Survey number: HAER MN-42 Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harbor Street looking East, Kingston, Jamaica.

Harbor Street looking East, Kingston, Jamaica.

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Entering street car ?, George Grantham Bain Collection

Entering street car ?, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Train station Trolley - Public domain photograph.

Train station Trolley - Public domain photograph.

Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco This negative might show str... More

OVERTURNED STREET CAR - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

OVERTURNED STREET CAR - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Colle... More

OVERTURNED STREET CAR - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

OVERTURNED STREET CAR - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Colle... More

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a train. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a train. Office ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

State St., Chicago, Ill (N. from Adams): noonday crowds on a thoroughfare 18 miles long

State St., Chicago, Ill (N. from Adams): noonday crowds on a thoroughf...

Stereograph showing traffic congestion with several streetcars and carriages in the street; hundreds of people crowded onto sidewalks entering and exiting several businesses in downtown area. Copyright 1903 by ... More

D-class Melbourne tram.. Bernard Spragg photography

D-class Melbourne tram.. Bernard Spragg photography

The D-class trams are low-floor Combino trams that operate on the Melbourne tram network. They were built by Siemens in Germany, and are divided into two classes: the three section D1-class which was introduced... More

CROYDON SOUTH END VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram Horse & Cart SURREY

CROYDON SOUTH END VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH POSTCARD Tram Horse & Cart SURREY

Mark Crombie, Flickr vintage topographical postcards collection. Public domain scan of vintage postcard, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street View of Chelsea Street Heading South

Street View of Chelsea Street Heading South

This photograph is a view of the intersection of Chelsea Street and Bunker Hill Street, facing south. Theodore Crawford v. Boston Elevated Railway Company

Stockholm City Hall in snow, Uppland, Sweden

Stockholm City Hall in snow, Uppland, Sweden

Stockholm City Hall a snowy day, viewed from Tegelbacken. Traffic with cars and trams, and a man passing by. At quay, the steamer Hugo Tamm. ..Stockholms stadshus en snöig dag, sett från Tegelbacken. Trafik me... More

E-class Melbourne tram. Bernard Spragg photography

E-class Melbourne tram. Bernard Spragg photography

The E-class trams are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams that were first introduced to the Melbourne tram network in 2013. They are being built by Bombardier Transportation's Dandenong factory, with th... More

Christchurch Tramway., Bernard Spragg Photo

Christchurch Tramway., Bernard Spragg Photo

The Christchurch tramway system is an extensive network in Christchurch, New Zealand, with steam and horse trams from 1882. Electric trams ran from 1905 to 1954, when the last line to Papanui was replaced by bu... More

Along the waterfront - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Along the waterfront - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

600mm gauge tram in France. Royan? Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coulans - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Coulans - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

metre gauge steam tram at the station Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Collision between a trolley and a hearse

Collision between a trolley and a hearse

Public domain reproduction of artwork in Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From Brady's Studio, PA. Ave. & 7th St. looking toward Center Market, Wash., D.C

From Brady's Studio, PA. Ave. & 7th St. looking toward Center Market, ...

Photograph shows buildings, a street car and Center Market in Washington, D.C., as seen from the photography studio of Mathew Brady. Title from information on negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: "(Brady orig. ... More

Exchange National Bank Building, probably Colorado Springs

Exchange National Bank Building, probably Colorado Springs

Title devised by cataloger. Possibly by William Henry Jackson. "Colorado Spri[ngs] and Interurban Railway Co." on streetcar. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 14871. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[New York City. View along waterfront on West Street; many freight wagons; street car]

[New York City. View along waterfront on West Street; many freight wag...

Photo copyrighted by A. Loeffler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Winfield, Ks., gelatin silver print,  Panoramic Photograph

Winfield, Ks., gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

J148458 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Chas. M. Morgan; December 2, 1910.

One-step car, N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph

One-step car, N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows a trolley in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of ... More

Woolworth Bldg. iron work, photo by Irving Underhill

Woolworth Bldg. iron work, photo by Irving Underhill

Public domain photograph of large building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. STREET CAR, SUSAN B. ANTHONY PAGEANT

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. STREET CAR, SUSAN B. ANTHONY PAGEANT

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

People waiting for streetcars to arrive. Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

People waiting for streetcars to arrive. Terminal, Oklahoma City, Okla...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of two trains in a station. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two trains in a station. Office of War Info...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

. Office of War Information Photograph

. Office of War Information Photograph

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a child on a bus. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a child on a bus. Office of War Information...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of a woman in uniform. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in uniform. Office of War Informati...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A riverfront streetcar (called a trolley locally and known as "Old 300") passes under the 4.067-mile-long Astoria-Megler cantilever bridge, the longest continuous truss bridge in North America, in Astoria, Oregon

A riverfront streetcar (called a trolley locally and known as "Old 300...

The bridge near the mouth of the Columbia River connects Astoria to Point Ellice in Washington State. This car once served in San Antonio, Texas, including its 1968 World's Fair, and is still (in 2018) owned by... More

Darktown trolley - Clar de track when de bell rings: Popular line. Transfer everywhere

Darktown trolley - Clar de track when de bell rings: Popular line. Tra...

Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1559.

The imperial opera, Vienna, Austria - stereocsopic card

The imperial opera, Vienna, Austria - stereocsopic card

View of opera house across square filled with pedestrians and horse-drawn streetcars. Stereo sold by Underwood & Underwood, New York; London; Toronto; Ottawa; Kansas. This record contains unverified, old data f... More

Tram 178: “The Brill” Christchurch.NZ

Tram 178: “The Brill” Christchurch.NZ

Tram 178: “The Brill” Another Boon tram, built in 1921 for two-person operation and converted in the 1930s so that the driver could run the tram without a conductor. This tram runs in only one direction, and re... More

Tram 178 “The Brill”. Bernard Spragg photography

Tram 178 “The Brill”. Bernard Spragg photography

Tram 178: “The Brill”.Another Boon tram, built in 1921 for two-person operation and converted in the 1930s so that the driver could run the tram without a conductor. This tram runs in only one direction, and re... More

The Brill, Bernard Spragg Photo

The Brill, Bernard Spragg Photo

Christchurch Tramways Car No.178 built by Boon & Co.in 1921 Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hong Kong City Transport - coin, public domain photograph

Hong Kong City Transport - coin, public domain photograph

Hong Kong has a highly developed and sophisticated transport network, encompassing both public and private transport. Over 90% of the daily journeys are on public transport, making it the highest rate in the wo... More

Viewed from the Trams Hong Kong.

Viewed from the Trams Hong Kong.

Sweeping across the north side of Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong tram has been motoring Hong Kongers through the streets of the city for over 100 years. Despite dating from colonial times and boasting the top ... More

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