Sixth Avenue Looking South

ID: 299 ~ Source: Des Moines, The Pioneer of Municipal Progress and Reform of the Middle West... opp. p. 608. ~ Creator: Brigham, Johnson, 1846-1936 ~ Date: 1911

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Streetcar traveling north on Sixth Avenue. State Insurance Co and Boston Market Cafe signs visible on right side of image. Electric streetlight in bottom right. Automobiles along with horses and carriages line the street.

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Subject

Transportation

Publisher

Clarke (S.J.) Publishing Company: Chicago

Relation

Index to Pictures of Iowa People and Places, Special Collections, Des Moines Public Library.

Des Moines, The Pioneer of Municipal Progress and Reform of the Middle West...,Special Collections, Des Moines Public Library

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Image

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Streetcars, Trolleys, Curbliners, and Buses in Des Moines

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