Pictorial Americana

Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress

TRANSPORTATION - CITY TRANSIT * Select the thumbnail image to view larger versions through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Street railroad car, New Orleans. Wood engraving in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Sept. 8, 1855. Reproduction number: LC-USZ61-350 The Boston and Cambridge new horse railroad. Wood engraving in Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, June 7, 1856. Reproduction number: LC-USZ61-372 New York City. The development of rapid transit. The first train on the Gilbert elevated railroad passing through Sixth Avenue ... April 29th. Wood engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 25, 1878. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-2108 El. R.R. curve, 110th Street, N.Y.C. Photograph by J.S. Johnston, 1894. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-5415 The trolley as a popular fad in Philadelphia. Reproduction in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, July 25, 1895, of watercolor by F. Cresson Schell. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-2172 A new divertisement for summer. A trolley car excursion. Reproduction in Harper's Weekly, Aug. 1, 1896, of drawing by F. Cresson Schell. Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-2113 Cable car on Court House Hill, Tacoma, Washington. Photograph by Universal View Co., 1906. Reproduction number: LC-USZ6-173