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ARC in North Russia. The headquarters ofhte ARC in Archangel. The RC flag flies from each ground floor corner of the big building. The building is of brick and concrete and formerly housed the North Russian branch of a large Russian tire fire and rubber company. The Archangel street cars are always a great novelty and a source of much amusement to the Americans. It is peculiarity of the Russian that he has no idea of hurrying aboard a street car. When a Russian has got his foot on the rear step, he thinks that the task of getting aboard the car is finished, and he sees no reason why he shuld disturb himself to let others aboard. The result is that three Russians at a street corner will tie up a street car for an indefinite length of time. During the railway strike, when the American soldiers were running the cars, they got impatient with this dilatory Russian custom and accordingly they used to start the cars without warning, leaving a struggling mass of Russians half on and half off

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ARC in North Russia. The headquarters ofhte ARC in Archangel. The RC flag flies from each ground floor corner of the big building. The building is of brick and concrete and formerly housed the North Russian branch of a large Russian tire fire and rubber company. The Archangel street cars are always a great novelty and a source of much amusement to the Americans. It is peculiarity of the Russian that he has no idea of hurrying aboard a street car. When a Russian has got his foot on the rear step, he thinks that the task of getting aboard the car is finished, and he sees no reason why he shuld disturb himself to let others aboard. The result is that three Russians at a street corner will tie up a street car for an indefinite length of time. During the railway strike, when the American soldiers were running the cars, they got impatient with this dilatory Russian custom and accordingly they used to start the cars without warning, leaving a struggling mass of Russians half on and half off

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC.
Group title: Headquarters in Russia.
Data: Mag. Bureau, 4/19/19. Ex. Underwood & Underwood NY City. Credit R.C. Mag. March 4th.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 21

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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01/01/1919
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