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Filter: Subject of Cable cars (Streetcars)
Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of King Street, looking east, with a streetcar. Lake Monona is in the background. Caption reads: "King Street, looking East, Madison, Wis." |
| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pinckney Street view with the edge of the Capitol grounds on the right. A streetcar is in the center of the street. Storefronts with their awnings over the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of Main street, looking east from Fourth Street. It is interesting to note that "The Largest Whiskey House" saloon is located next door to a drug st... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l... |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | A streetcar was knocked off the tracks in an accident with an automobile at the corner of Mills and Drake Streets. |
| Date: | 09 27 1930 |
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| Description: | The corner of State Street and Capitol Square from the roof of the Leath Furniture Store, with a view of the 100 block of State Street, the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Streetcar advertising the Marx Brothers in "Animal Crackers" at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
| 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: | 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Trolley car driving along Grand Avenue, with people walking on the sidewalks next to storefronts. Caption reads: "Grand Ave., Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An engraving of an elevated view of the Leinenkugel brewery, est. 1867, located at 5 Jefferson Avenue. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings lining Washington Street, with cable cars traveling down the center of the street. Caption reads: "Washington Street, Green Bay,... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at Washington Street with cable car traffic. Caption reads: "Washington Street, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Street with trolley and horse-drawn vehicles. Caption reads: "Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down center of a street. Caption reads: "Clean, Wide, Business Streets Greet You in Oshkosh". On the left side of the street is a large clock on the s... |
| Date: | 09 19 1915 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Auditorium at N. 6th Street and W. Kilbourn Avenue. |
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