Streetcars

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David H. Steinberg manuscript history of Knoxville’s streetcars and additional research material (photocopy).

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History of Knoxville’s Streetcar System, 1902-1922. No author. Typescript. 7 pp.

Scope and Contents The Joe Carroll Bell Streetcar collection consists of photographs, copy prints, programs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, drawings, pins, fliers, maps, calendars, postcards, and reports.The photographs, copy prints, and photocopied photographs comprise a majority of the collection and show primarily Knoxville streetcars and drivers from approximately 1900 until the 1940s. The streetcar reports provide details of specific streetcars owned and operated by the Knoxville Railway and...

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A remembrance of life in Lincoln Park by a longtime resident, who was an accomplished fiddle player and also an expert on the history of Knoxville streetcars

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SPC 2012.010.001 Knoxville Power & Light Company. Streetcar #5 Lonsdale. ‘Don’t Gamble. Buy Now Knoxville Power & Light Company’s Preferred Stock. Pays dividends every three months. People on streetcar and in doorways. 8x10” sepia. Taken by Robin Thompson. 1 pc. SPC 2012.010.002 Knoxville Power & Light Co. employees on stage with electronic appliances. Nelle Mann, 2nd from left (aunt of donor). 11x7” B&W Taken by Robin Thompson. 1 pc.. Other IDs on back of photo.

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Knoxville Streetcar City: Photographs from 1984 Exhibit (East Tennessee Historical Society) Includes photograph of the dance pavilion at Fountain City

Scope and Contents McCampbell - Simpson Photographs. 37 photographs in 7 folders (in one 2.5” box). Subjects include: Matthew and Eleanor Simpson; Old McCampbell House; 2 laundry interiors with women working; 2 Spring Hill School groups, one from ca. 1917-18; 10 streetcar photographs with Bell Avenue streetcar, Lake Ottosee streetcar, Middlebrook streetcar (Green & Peden), and Broadway streetcar (tinted); People in front of unidentified business, Kathleen Idelle McCampbell (1911), Beulah Parker Wade...

Scope and Contents Scope: 3 scrapbooks containing Knoxville newspaper clippings, original photographs, ephemera, brochures for train excursions, newspaper account of the last passenger train service in Knoxville, last run of the final Knoxville electric streetcar in 1947, and related materials. Primarily relating to trains, but also including streetcars. Mostly concerning Southern and L & N Railways (1967-1969), with a few items from earlier years. Items were probably kept by an (unidentified) Knoxville...

Scope and Contents Two black-and-white photographs: 1) 10"x19.5" group of men in uniforms standing in two lines in front of three streetcars. One streetcar has "Vestal" across the front, one has "Fountain City" and the third has "Lyons View". Written in lower right corner "Aug-11-1934" 2) 14"x19.5" row of people standing in front of streetcar marked "1890-1947 Last Run" Photographer's mark in lower right corner "Thompsons". Electric streetcars made their last run in Knoxville August 1, 1947. One...