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Milwaukee Streetcar
1905
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.
Milwaukee Trolley
1900 - 1909
Streetcar #254 of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company on the North Avenue line, together with three company employees. Two men sit on the front steps of a large Romanesque building in the background.
First Streetcars in Wisconsin
1886
First electric street railway service in Wisconsin.
Self-Service Supermarket
1953
A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
Milwaukee Streetcar
June 10, 1906
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 1925, and finally scrapped in 1940. In 1906...
