1,183 Street railroads Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...

Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...

Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More

Zürich. Bahnhofbrücke & Landes Museum view, photochrome print postcard...

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Switzerland. Zurich. Railway Bridge and Museum." Print no. "9774. P.Z." Gift; Detroit Publishi... More

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

All elevated trains in Chicago stop at the Chicago Rock Island and Pac...

C² 29397 U.S. Copyright Office Shows Rock Island ticket offices and stations, cable and electric street car system, and elevated system in the city. Title in Copyright record, v. 15, 1897: Birdseye view of port... More

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Mission and old mission trolley trip, probably California]

Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Colorado Street at Fair Oaks Avenue, probably Pasadena, California]

Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gran calavera eléctrica] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows large skeleton hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton; an electric street car, with skeletons as passengers, is in the background. This image is identical to the image used in the uppe... More

[West Boston Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts.]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Street car depot, Long Branch Park, Syracuse, N.Y.]

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Riverton Park from carriage entrance, Portland, Me.]

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Niagara Falls, Detroit publishing company photo

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29496. Similar to negative D4-18290. "Use 18290" on label in center of negative. Transparency scratched lower right. Detr... More

Field's minstrels on Canal Street, New Orleans, La

No. 640-c. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Broadway and Times Building (One Times Square), New York City]

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Palm Beach trolley - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

"57" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018465. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Construction work, grade separation, Fourteenth Avenue, Detroit, Mich...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30569. "3254" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019613. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.]

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Concord square, Concord, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry pla...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Donald Mallick, ("Happy"), 203 King Street. 9 years of age, selling ne...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1513. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

[Broadway south from Astor Building, New York City] / American Studio,...

J212962 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Early automobiles - Auto accident

Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Capitol Transit Company. Street car of Capitol Transit Co. III

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Streetcars. Streetcar in front of Capitol

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Elevated railroad, Coenties Slip, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Stereograph showing two street railroad trains traveling in opposite directions, on elevated railroad tracks, passing by buildings in the city. H78983 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899, by B.L. Singley. No. 569.

Baseball fans - crowd in front of the City Hall, Detroit, Oct. 6, 1908...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Texas State Fair, Main Entrance

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Main Power S...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-B Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh & Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel, Between Fifth & S...

Significance: The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel was a section of the Pittsburgh rail link between the Pennsylvania Railroad's western terminus and the eastern terminus of the Steubenvill... More

Pittsburgh & Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel, Between Fifth & S...

Significance: The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Extension Railroad Tunnel was a section of the Pittsburgh rail link between the Pennsylvania Railroad's western terminus and the eastern terminus of the Steubenvill... More

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade Cou...

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winter scene in Philadelphia - Public domain graphic arts, Library of ...

Print shows a street scene in winter in front of the "Russian Heater Works" at the intersection of "Filbert" and "Twelfth" streets in Philadelphia; includes many pedestrians on the street, the "Twelfth Street P... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Carbarn, Thi...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Carbarn, Thi...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Carbarn, Thi...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...

Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...

Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Connecting t...

Significance: The Yakima Valley Transportation Company is one of the country's last intact, authentic electric interurban railroads. It owns the oldest, regularly-operating locomotives (75 years old) in conjun... More

Industrial-exposition. Louisville 1872

Print shows a view of the exhibition building with broad boulevards in the foreground with pedestrians, carriages, and a street railroad. C8344 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at center: Presented by the Louisv... More

[Trolley cars near Boston Commons, Boston, Massachusetts]

18509 or 18510 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Main entrance, Saratoga race track, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Glimpse of Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woodward Avenue north from Opera House corner, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woodward Avenue, north from Jefferson, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury, N.E. to the United States Capit...

People on balcony in foregrd.; U.S. Capitol in distance. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Street railroads; Ph. Ind.

Japan, Tokio [sic], street scenes

View down center of Tokyo street with cable car tracks in foreground, buildings and people in background. H662425 or 6 U.S. Copyright Office.

Washington Ave. [Avenue], Newport News, Virginia

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Second Avenue, looking east, Birmingham, Ala

"G 3618" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019414. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Campus Martius, Detroit, Mich. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Francis Lance, 5 years old, 41 inches high. Sells regularly on Grand A...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1394. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Looking up Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073427. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Granby Street from the corner of Main Street, Norfolk, Virginia

Capitol Transit Company. Street car and bus at Peace Monument in front...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Capitol Transit Company. Street car and bus at Peace Monument in front...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York's greatest "shopping" district and elevated railway--Sixth Av...

Stereograph showing a view of several businesses and crowds of pedestrians on the sidewalk; street railroad trains running along elevated railroad tracks. Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold on... More

Looking up Canal St., New Orleans, La.

Stereo by R.R. Whiting. No. 9053. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...

Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Proposed arcade railway--Under Broadway, view near Wall Street / Ferd....

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Falls Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River, connecting East & West River ...

Significance: The Falls Bridge is a unique and well-preserved example of the Petit through truss design, capable of carrying a roadway on both its upper and lower chords. The upper deck remains incomplete, but... More

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Wide Hollow ...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-E Public domain photograph of electric locomotive, electrified railroads, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Main Power S...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-B Public domain photograph related to electrical equipment, industrial development, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madison Square, New York, Panoramic Photograph

H96563 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; July 15, 1907.

Tenth Street Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Great Falls, Cascade Cou...

Public domain photograph of construction architecture design, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a tram car, free to us...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., looking toward the U.S. Capito...

Photograph shows automobiles and trolleys on Pennsylvania Avenue near old 4-1/2 Street and the Ford Motor Company Building. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

[Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., looking toward the U.S. Capito...

Photograph shows automobiles and trolleys on Pennsylvania Avenue near old 4-1/2 Street and the Ford Motor Company Building. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Carbarn, Thi...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yakima Valley Transportation Company Interurban Railroad, Carbarn, Thi...

Survey number: HAER WA-13-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lessons for the uninitiated - pickpockets at work on the city railroad...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 25, 1867 Sept. 21, p. 1.

[Dottie and Lottie]. Dottie and Lottie talking, woman in streetcar acr...

Title devised by cataloger. Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie : in the street car." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The Cars as they will be on the Brooklyn Bridge / drawn by Harry Ogden...

Drawing showing train and horse-drawn wagons on the Brooklyn Bridge; and drawing showing woman getting dog at dog pound. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1883 June 16, p. 380.

[Seattle's first street car turning from Occidental Avenue to Yesler W...

Caption on card: Seattle and vicinity. Frank H. Osgood installed the street car system in Seattle. He appears in this photograph standing behind the horses. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson co... More

The alderman's alternative - to Sing Sing, or Canada? / J.A. Wales.

Illustration shows a man, possibly Jacob Sharp or one of the aldermen he bribed, holding a carpetbag labeled "Broadway Street Car Boodle", looking up at a street sign pointing in two directions, to the left "To... More

Labor Day parade, Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.

Title from jacket. "Xtra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032176. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Government Square, Cincinnati, O[hio]

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Windsor Hotel and Royal Street, Mobile, Ala.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First trolley car in Hamburg, N. Y.

Photograph shows two trolley employees standing next to the Buffalo, Hamburg & Aurora Railway Co. car.

[Library park, Gratiot Avenue & Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The New board walk, Rockaway, L.I.

Bathing pavilion and tracks of street railroad. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 016858.

Blockaded cars on 23rd St., New York

Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of Granby Street, Norfolk, Virginia

Photograph shows a slightly elevated view of streetcars running past local businesses on crowded downtown streets; city sidewalks crowded with people. Copyright 1906 by Jamestown Official Photograph Corporation... More

Newspaper Row, Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts

"3257" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019623. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Cor[ner] State and Grand Ave., Beloit, Wis.

Postcard shows streetcars and pedestrians on the corner of State Street and Grand Avenue in Beloit, Wisconsin. H 116535 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Hamilton Bros., Brodhead, Wisconsin.

School boy, "flipping cars." Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 896. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Looking up Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main Street palms, Jacksonville, Fla.

Early automobiles - Auto accident

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Canadian scenes. Sightseeing car II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Louis Justement, architect. Plans and pictures of Washington, D.C. IX

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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