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1. Abandoned Como-Harriet line, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1966?
Description:
Looking north across 42nd Street at the abandoned streetcar right of way.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

2. Abandoned Como-Harriet line, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1966?
Description:
Looking north at the abandoned streetcar right of way at the Linden Hills Bridge.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

3. Abandoned Como-Harriet line, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1966?
Description:
Looking north at the abandoned streetcar right of way at the Interlachen Bridge.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

4. Abandoned streetcar track, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1950?
Description:
Looking east at partially paved over abandoned streetcar track on East Hennepin at Stinson Blvd.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

5. Adjusting brakes under streetcar, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1928?
Description:
Shopman adjusting brakes in pit under streetcar inside Snelling Shops
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

6. Advertisement for Lake Harriet Pavilion, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1888-07
Description:
Card advertising 10 minute service to Lake Harriet and the Lake Harriet Pavilion.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Advertisements

7. Advertisement for Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company, Twin City Rapid Transit

Creator:
Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company
Date Created:
1925
Description:
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows a car built for Chicago.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

8. Advertisement for Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company, Twin City Rapid Transit

Creator:
Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Company
Date Created:
1925
Description:
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows cars built for Chicago and Grand Rapids.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

9. Advertisement for Northern Car Company, Robbinsdale, Minnesota

Creator:
Northern Car Company
Date Created:
1885?
Description:
For a short time, the Northern Car Company of Robbinsdale built streetcars, such as the one in this ad.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

10. Advertisement for the "New Doubledecker to Lake Minnetonka," Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1906
Description:
Advertisement for new double-decker streetcar service from Minneapolis to Excelsior.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

11. Advertisement for women to drive streetcar during World War II, Twin City Rapid Transit

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1943
Description:
Newspaper Advertisement for women to drive streetcar during World War II
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

12. Advertising streetcar, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1953
Description:
A streetcar covered with ads for a movie stands outside East Side Station on 1st Avenue NE.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Advertising streetcar, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 -1945
Description:
A streetcar completely covered in safety slogans.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Advertising streetcar, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Rusterholz, Arthur
Date Created:
1953
Description:
Streetcar covered with ads for a western movie.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Aerial bridge streetcar wye, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1922
Description:
Streetcar wye at Lake Avenue and Morse Street, the end of track next to the Aerial Bridge, in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Aerial view of Snelling Station and Shops, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1922?
Description:
Aerial view looking east over Snelling Station and Shops, also Montgomery Ward.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Aerial view of Snelling Station and Shops, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1920?
Description:
Aerial view of Snelling Station and Shops
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Aerial view of the Snelling Shops, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Keljik, Vir
Date Created:
1953
Description:
Aerial view of Snelling Shops during conversion from streetcars to buses.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Aftermath of runaway Incline car, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Hall, C. H.
Date Created:
1901-05-28
Description:
Aftermath of the powerhouse fire, showing the west incline car crashed at the bottom of the incline.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Aftermath of streetcar wreck, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1951
Description:
Aftermath of bad streetcar collision on 42nd Ave. S. at 52nd St.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. After the game at Nicollet Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1912 - 1915
Description:
Looking north across the 31st Street and Nicollet Avenue intersection at streetcars lined up for the ballpark break.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

22. Alley streetcars near Lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1953
Description:
Looking north from 34th St. at streetcars negotiating the alley trackage between Irving and James Ave. just east of Lake Calhoun.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

23. Along East River Road at Northern Pump yard, Fridley, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946
Description:
Looking north at an in-service car parked on the main line. Employees are looking underneath it, maybe inspecting a defect. Two other cars and the work motor are in the yard at right.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Along Highway 36, Oakdale, Minnesota

Date Created:
1951
Description:
Mahtomedi line along Highway 36 just east of North St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Along White Bear Lake

Creator:
Sweet for TCRT
Date Created:
1904
Description:
White Bear line streetcar skirts the south shore of White Bear Lake.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Among the Ponds of Great Lake Minnetonka Electric Highway, Minnetonka, Minnesota

Date Created:
1906
Description:
A streetcar on the Twin City Rapid Transit's high speed electric railway passes through a lake on a causeway.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

27. Anchor bolt for Double Deck Car, Twin City Rapid Transit Company, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1905-11-06
Description:
Design drawing for anchor bolt details of a Twin City Rapid Transit double deck streetcar.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Design drawings

28. "And to think" advertisement for streetcars, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Date Created:
1925?
Description:
Newspaper ad promoting the benefits of the streetcar system.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

29. Anoka car house, Anoka, Minnesota

Date Created:
1937 - 1940
Description:
This view is looking north at the Anoka yard from Cross Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

30. Anoka streetcar, Anoka, Minnesota

Creator:
Moneypenney, William
Date Created:
1935?
Description:
A streetcar of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range Ry. Loads express packages at the Anoka carhouse.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

31. Anoka streetcar #1, Anoka, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915
Description:
Car #1 of the Minneapolis, Anoka & Cuyuna Range Ry. Was built at Twin City Rapid Transit's Snelling Shops as a modified version of the standard TCRT design. This is its builder's photo.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Anoka train, Anoka, Minnesota

Date Created:
1913
Description:
Minneapolis and Northern self-propelled rail car on Main Street in Anoka.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Approaching Big Island Park, Orono, Minnesota

Date Created:
1909?
Description:
View of Big Island Park from upper deck of approaching ferry.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

34. Approaching Selby Tunnel, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Selle, Robert A.
Date Created:
1953
Description:
Streetcar climbing Kellogg Blvd. toward the Selby Tunnel.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

35. 1940 Aquatennial map, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940
Description:
Reprint of a 1940 Aquatennial event map, which also shows all streetcar and bus routes.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Cartographic
Format:
Maps

36. A quiet day on Third Street, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1905?
Description:
Business district along Third Street, with children in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

37. Arrival of the Luce line "Special," Winstead, Minnesota

Creator:
Lhotka, Fred
Date Created:
1915-02-16
Description:
Panoramic postcard, capturing the opening day of February 16, 1915 in Winstead, Minnesota. There is snow and a large crowd of observers. Caption reads, "Arrival of the Luce Line 'Special' Winstead, Minnesota Feb. 16, 1915 with Col. Luce and party to attend banquet celebrating the opening of the Line to Traffic."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Panoramas

38. Arrival of the streamlined streetcar, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1946
Description:
The first of 140 streamlined PCC streetcars arrives on a railroad flat car at the Snelling Shops.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. "A Storm Increases Danger" safety card, Minneapolis Street Railway Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1915 - 1917
Description:
Color lithograph card promoting safety titled, "A Storm Increases Danger," with drawing of a woman with umbrella about to be struck by a streetcar.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Advertisements

40. 41 1/2 Avenue and Broadway, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1925?
Description:
Looking down on the intersection of Broadway and 41 1/2 Avenue North.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

41. Awaiting scrapping, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1954
Description:
A row of streetcar bodies, up on blocks, await scrapping at Snelling Shops.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Bankers Life & Casualty insurance car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for health insurance for Bankers Life & Casualty Company in Chicago.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

43. Bannon's Department Store car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for Bannon's Department Store. "Share Profits, Save Red Profit Sharing Stamps, Full Book Worth $2.00 Cash or $2.50 merchandise... Besides Lowest Prices Always, Bannons St.Paul's Oldest Large Home Owned Dept. Store."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

44. Beacon Hill Pavilion, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1892 - 1900
Description:
The Beacon Hill pavilion, at the top of the Seventh Avenue Incline in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

45. Beautiful Big Island Park, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1908?
Description:
Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

46. Big Island dock, Orono, Minnesota

Date Created:
1908?
Description:
A ferry from Excelsior approached the dock at Big Island in Lake Minnetonka
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

47. Big Island dock, Orono, Minnesota

Date Created:
1906
Description:
A ferry from Excelsior approached the dock at Big Island in Lake Minnetonka
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

48. Big Island ferry, Excelsior, Minnesota

Creator:
Sweet
Date Created:
1906
Description:
Three of these large double ended ferries shuttled between Excelsior and Big Island in Lake Minnetonka, from 1906 to 1911.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

49. Big Island Park promenade, Orono, Minnesota

Creator:
Sweet
Date Created:
1908?
Description:
Covered promenade at Big Island Park in Lake Minnetonka.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

50. Big Island steamboat dock, Orono, Minnesota

Date Created:
1906
Description:
The ferry "Minnetonka" unloads passengers at the Big Island Park dock.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards
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