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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Bill the Motorman car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1944
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement promoting streetcar service.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

10. Bjorkman Furs car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for Bjorkman Furs. Bjorkman Furs offers: "Bjorkmanizing" Feezing Cold Fur Storage. The store was located in downtown Minneapolis at Nicollet Avenue and Tenth Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

11. Boutell's furniture store car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for radios at Boutell's furniture store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Immediate Delivery!! Table Radios, Boutells, Marquette at Fifth."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

12. Broadway and Monroe streetcar, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Olsen, William J.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Looking east at WB Broadway Crosstown car passing Logan Park at Broadway Street and Monroe Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

13. Bryant at Minnehaha Creek, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1948?
Description:
A northbound streetcar crosses Minnehaha Creek and crosses Minnehaha Parkway.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Bryant Ave. Minnehaha Creek streetcar bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Blewett, Kirt
Date Created:
1948?
Description:
A Bryant Ave, streetcar crosses Minnehaha Creek on the concrete streetcar-only bridge.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Buses at Excelsior Amusement Park, Excelsior, Minnesota

Date Created:
1938 - 1944
Description:
Looking east at a long string of Twin City Rapid Transit buses lined up along the Excelsior Amusement Park roller coaster.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Postcards

16. Central and Reservoir Boulevard, Columbia Heights, Minnesota

Creator:
Maguire, Stephen
Date Created:
1946
Description:
A southbound Central Avenue streetcar meets the Minneapolis Filtration Plant Railway at Central Avenue and Reservoir Blvd.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Central Warehouse electric locomotive, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1949
Description:
The enormous Central Warehouse complex north of University Avenue and Vandalia Street was served by a complex network of electrified spur tracks, which were switched by this electric locomotive.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

18. Central Warehouse railroad, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947
Description:
Electric locomotive switching a boxcar on the Central Warehouse Company railroad in the St. Paul Midway.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Christmas at Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1948?
Description:
Workers hang Christmas decorations over Lake Street at Lyndale Avenue as a streetcar passes.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

20. Columbia Heights streetcar, Columbia Heights, Minnesota

Date Created:
1947?
Description:
A Columbia Heights streetcar rolls east on 40 Avenue NE at Jefferson Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

21. Como and Hamline, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
King, Le Roy O.
Date Created:
1947?
Description:
An eastbound Como-Harriet streetcar pauses at Hamline Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

22. Como-Harriet Line, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Stone, Barney
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Cottage City stop on the Como-Harriet line at William Berry Road.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

23. Como Park streetcar station, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Barnet, Jacob
Date Created:
1900 -1945
Description:
Looking northeast at the pedestrian footbridge next to the Como Park Station in the snow. The roof of the station is visible at far right.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

24. Como Park streetcar station, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Barnet, J.
Date Created:
1900 -1945
Description:
Looking west from the pedestrian footbridge next to the Como Park Station at the Lexington Avenue bridge.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

25. Como Park streetcar station, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Barnet, Jacob
Date Created:
1900 -1945
Description:
Looking west from the south side of the tracks at the pedestrian footbridge next to the Como Park Station. The Lexington Avenue bridge is in the distance.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

26. Como Park streetcar station, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Stern, John
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Looking east from the Lexington Avenue bridge at a westbound car.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

27. Concord Street at Annapolis Street, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 -1945
Description:
Looking north where new and old Concord Street split, with the tracks following old Concord Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

28. Coolerator ice boxes car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1941
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for Coolerator ice boxes.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

29. Curtis Hotel car card, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
Streetcar interior advertisement for The Curtis Hotel, located at 10th Street at 3rd and 4th Avenue in Minneapolis. "Largest in the Midwest, Delightful Accomodations Always, Rooms $3.50 to $7.00, All Outside rooms with Bath, Garage. Dine in the friendly new Cardinal Room, Dinner Music by Dick Long's Orchestra."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Text
Format:
Car cards

30. Dan Patch #100, Fridley, Minnesota

Date Created:
1944
Description:
Historic locomotive #100, the first internal combustion railroad locomotive built in 1910, working for its third owner, Northern Ordnance.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

31. Dan Patch locomotive at Northern Ordinance, Duluth, Minnesota

Creator:
Northern Ordinance
Date Created:
1944
Description:
Pioneer locomotive Dan Patch #100 posed in front of new owner, the Northern Ordinance defense plant.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

32. Descending Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Whittaker, Wilbur C.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
A Bryant streetcar on Lyndale Avenue at Groveland Terrace passes the statue of Thomas Lowry.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

33. Descending Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Whittaker, Wilbur C.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
A streetcar on Hennepin Avenue descends Lowry Hill at Douglas.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

34. Downtown streetcar, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Olsen, William J.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Ist Avenue N. and 7th Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

35. Downtown view with streetcar, Robbinsdale, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946?
Description:
The streetcar begins its trip from Robbinsdale, passing the Chrysler dealership on West Broadway near 42nd Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

36. Duluth electric trolley bus, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
A westbound electric trolley bus boards a passenger on Superior Street at 10th Avenue East.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

37. Duluth Superior Transit Company office, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1940?
Description:
The offices of Duluth Superior Transit Company were located on Superior Street at 27th Avenue West, next to the former streetcar house, converted to bus operations after 1939.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

38. Duluth trolleybus at carhouse, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
1948
Description:
Trolleybus #16 sits in the yard at the former streetcar barn on Superior Street and 26th Avenue West.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

39. East end of the Broadway line, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1948?
Description:
Streetcar #1 passes the Minneapolis Public School headquarters at Broadway and Jackson Avenues NE.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

40. East Side Station, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Stone, Barney
Date Created:
1949
Description:
Streetcars parked in the yard of East Side Station.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

41. Express boat "Minnetonka" on Lake Minnetonka, Excelsior, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945?
Description:
The last surviving streetcar express boat on Lake Minnetonka was the Hopkins, renamed Minnetonka. It is shown at the Water Street dock.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

42. Filtration Plant Railway, Columbia Heights, Minnesota

Creator:
Hewetson, Don
Date Created:
1945 - 1950
Description:
The Minneapolis Filtration Plant railway work motor at the plant.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

43. First PCC car, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Taetsch, Theodore
Date Created:
1947?
Description:
The first PCC car, #299, on Wabasha Street at 10th Street.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

44. First PCC streetcar, St. Paul, Minnesota

Creator:
Twin City Rapid Transit
Date Created:
1945
Description:
The first modern PCC streetcar in the Twin Cities, diverted from an order for Pittsburgh.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

45. Fort Snelling right of way at Bureau of Mines stop a couple of blocks south of 54th Street, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Date Created:
1945 - 1948
Description:
Looking north at the road crossing the tracks and two waiting shelters.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. Fort Snelling shuttle, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Creator:
Olsen, William J.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Chartered railfan excursion and Fort Snelling shuttle streetcar at Bridge Junction.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

47. Fort Snelling shuttle, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Creator:
Olsen, William J.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Fort Snelling shuttle streetcar at Bridge Junction.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

48. Fort Snelling shuttle, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Creator:
Olsen, William J.
Date Created:
1948
Description:
Fort Snelling shuttle streetcar at Bridge Junction.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

49. Fort Snelling shuttle, Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Creator:
Stitzel, James A.
Date Created:
1949
Description:
Fort Snelling shuttle streetcar.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

50. France Avenue streetcar, Robbinsdale, Minnesota

Date Created:
1946?
Description:
A Robbinsdale streetcar travels on France Avenue near 36th Avenue.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs
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