Citizens Passenger Railway Fifth Avenue & Cemetery Streetcar

1935/1980

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Citizens Passenger Railway Fifth Avenue & Cemetery Streetcar
  • Title
  • Citizens Passenger Railway Fifth Avenue & Cemetery Streetcar
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B032.F28.I07
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B032.F28.I07
  • Description
  • Citizens Passenger Railway Horsecar, No. 9, Fifth Avenue and Cemetery, stops for passengers. On March 22, 1859, the Citizens Passenger Railway Company obtained a charter for construction and operation of the first street railway in Pittsburgh. Initially, the track was built on Penn Avenue from Saint Clair (now Sixth) Street to 26th Street.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Horse-drawn vehicles--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Horse railroads--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Citizens Passenger Railway (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Horses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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