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Absolutely Fireproof Fifth Street Near Main Baltimore Hotel Seymour Hotel Co., Inc., Operators Los Angeles’ Popular Priced Hotel An E.C. Kropp Card Number: 14700 via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/tQ6Lq7
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This group photo of the Street Railway Department was taken outside Yorkville Town Hall on the west side of Yonge at Collier Ave. In the background you can see a horse-drawn streetcar (with roof advertising) and a gas streetlamp. There are five barefoot boys, a farrier and at least one Asian man in the photo…
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Yonge Street, 1888, looking north from Queen St: this stretch pretty much always a vital part of the city. Before the Great Toronto fire of 1904, most of the buildings in the downtown core stood no more than 3 or 4 storeys. A horse-drawn streetcar plods along the dirt road, slightly behind a man (with…
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Car 43 on the Metropolitan line, 1912: This electric streetcar belonging to the Toronto and York Radial Railway is pictured on Yonge at Yonge Blvd. Incorporated in 1877, this railway was animal-powered until it converted to electric in 1890. The radial railroads were for travel between cities, and were largely replaced by buses once the…
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