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Description
A crowded street scene with a Portsmouth, Kittery and York open trolley car in York Beach. The date is believed to be August 27, 1897, the day that the first trolley car ran in York Beach. Note the horses and carriages and the ladies with their bicycles.
About This Item
- Title: Street scene in York, ca. 1897
- Creation Date: circa 1897
- Subject Date: circa 1897
- Location: York Beach, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18 cm
- Collection: O.R. Cummings Maine Trolley Album Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Spectators--Maine--York
- Bicycles & tricycles--Maine--York
- Carts & wagons--Maine--York
- Electric railroads--Maine
- Firsts--Maine--York
- Portsmouth, Kittery and York Railroad
- Crowds--Maine--York
- Events--Maine--York
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Seashore Trolley MuseumPO Box A, Log Cabin Road, Kennebunkport, ME 04046
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