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Description
V1p170c In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 170 bottom. Caption written under photo: "Metropolitan Electric Railway on Baker Street opposite Park Panhandle 1894. The downtown terminal of the road was at the corner of Eddy & Market Sts. Western terminal Stanyan and Page Sts. with a branch ending at 9th Ave & Lincoln Way durning the Midwinter Fair." View is of car #43 of the Metropolitan Railroad, looking southwest from Baker between Oak and Fell. Ornamental trolley line pole behind car. Crowd of dignitaries posing aboard and beside car. Metropolitan began its car numbering at #43 and worked backwards, a common practice at the time for smaller systems who wished to make their fleets look bigger.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001380677CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-3934
Subject
Street railroads--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Group portraits
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