Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
Large fold-out brochure promoting tours of Lake Minnetonka and Big Island Park via the streetcar company's streetcars and boats, with photos, drawings, maps and text.
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows a car built for Chicago.
The Lightweight Noiseless Electric Streetcar Co. built streetcars inside the Snelling Shops of Twin City Rapid Transit. This an ad shows cars built for Chicago and Grand Rapids.
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. The Influenza epidemic affected the association and an additional assessment of one month's dues was required from members for additional expenses. There was a $10,101.13 deficit at the end of January 1919. The biggest increase in expenses was for death payouts, going from $6699.50 in 1917 to $11900 in 1918. Twenty-eight deaths were listed for 1918 as opposed to 13 in 1917.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. The report notes that it's present membership (2638) is the highest since 1917. The larger membership numbered called for more home visitors, the department increased its staff from one (in 1918) to three in 1921. There were 387 homes visited in 1918 and 943 homes visited in 1921.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report shows structure of mutual benefit association, income, disbursements and membership. There is also a report on the Association's home visitor, Eva Andersen, who visited with over 300 hundred different families in her first year on the job. A list of member's who died and the life insurance paid out is at the back of the report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Annual Report of the Employe[e]s' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company The Saint Paul City Railway Company The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company. Annual Report of the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of Minneapolis Street Railway Company, The Saint Paul City Railway Company, The Minneapolis and St. Paul Suburban Railroad Company, The Minnetonka and White Bear Navigation Company; also know as the Twin City Rapid Transit Company. Report includes income and disbursements of association. Distribution of disbursements by geographic district and the duration and number of disability cases. The number of members who called on association physicians and the names of the station physicians is in the report. Also the names of employees that died and the life insurance paid to their survivors is listed at the end of the report.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
This safety poster warned against reckless behavior around streetcars. It was cut down from a car card, and advertisement displayed inside a streetcar and was used as backing for another photo in a scrapbook, which is why part of the text is missing.
Streetcar interior advertisement for the Yellow Pages. "Who can fix our radio Mother? Let's look in the Yellow Pages of the Telephone Book. The Classified Telephone Directory."
Streetcar interior advertisement for the West Hotel. "In Minneapolis your choice should be The West Hotel. 400 Modern Rooms, Coffee Shop Food at Reasonable Prices, Bar, Fine Wines and Liquors. Conveniently located at 5th and Hennepin. Garage accommodations."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Washington Shirt Company, located in both downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis. "Our Famous 'Senate' Shirt $1.65 Wear Washington Shirts, Promoted, Guaranteed, Tested, Lower Priced Highly Styled, Durotex Collar, Keenly Competitive, Advertised."
Streetcar interior advertisement for War Memorial Blood Bank. "Deposit Blood for your Family and Community! Deposit Blood... That Others Might Live. The Minneapolis War Memorial Blood Bank 1914 LaSalle Ave."
Streetcar interior advertisement for the Twin Zephyrs passenger trains. "Morning or Afternoon, Twin Zephyrs to Chicago. Leave Minneapolis 8:00 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. Leave Saint Paul 8:25 a.m. or 4:30 p.m. Arrive chicago 2:55 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. Diesel Powered Stainless Steel."
Streetcar interior advertisement for transit service. "Lucky You! No parking problems, No traffic worries because today you travelled Transit. Ride Transit Regularly."
Streetcar interior advertisement for streetcar riding. "Take this Car on Your Shopping Trips - for Safety, for Certainty, for Comfort, for Convenience!"
Streetcar interior advertisement that promotes the riding of the street cars. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Fred MacMurray, the Star says 'You're never lonesome when you ride the street cars.' The Trail of the Lonesome Pine at your theater." The advertisement refers to the 1936 Paramount Studio's motion picture "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Tower Liquors. Tower Liquor was located "in the shadow of the Foshay Tower on Marquette" Avenue in downtown Minneapolis.
Streetcar interior advertisement for 1936 St. Paul Winter Carnival. "Winter sports capital of the nation, Saint Paul Winter Carnival, Jan. 29 thru Feb. 6th. Extra! World's Greatest ice show 'Gay Blades' starring Maribel Vinson and Karl Schaefer."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Scripto Pens. "Scripto Super Dollar Ball Pen. Outwrites other ball pens - even at twice the price! New kind of ink writes smoother, longer! Can't clog or skip! $1.00 in 2 striking designs."
Streetcar interior advertisement for St. Paul Milk Company. "In the New space saving T-square Milk Bottle, Easy to Store, Easy to Pour, Easy to Handle. Saint Paul's Puritan Brand, Homogenized Vitamin D Milk. Saint Paul Milk Company."
Streetcar interior advertisement for the Red Cross. "It's time to roll up your sleeve... Give blood now Call your Red Cross Today, National Blood Program."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Radio Free Europe. "Let George do it! Send your 'Truth Dollar' to Crusade for Freedom. Support Radio Free Europe." Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/FL) was founded as a propaganda news source in 1949.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Scranton Coal available for purchase at Northwestern Fuel Company in Duluth, Minnesota at 403 West Superior Street. "Northwestern Fuel Co's Scranton 'The Coal That's All Coal' Prompt Delivery."
Streetcar interior advertisement for bus service to Northrop Auditorium concerts. "Music Lovers Go Transit. New bus service to and from Minneapolis Symphony & University artists course concerts. Busses will load and unload within one half block of Northrop Memorial Auditorium..."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis. "Where to Stop, When You Go to Minneapolis. Hotel Nicollet. 600 outside rooms from $2. Three Popular Priced Restaurants."
Streetcar interior advertisement for women's wear at Milton's. "Dresses, Coats, Suits, Sportswear, Finest Feminine Fashions." Milton's was located at 7 South 7th Street in Minneapolis, "Just 4 doors off Hennepin [Avenue]."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Millers Cafeteria. "Wide Variety of Delicious Attractive Foods." Millers Cafeteria was located at 20 South 7th Street.
Streetcar interior advertisement for Lee's Broiler. "Lee's Broiler Tenderloin Steak Served with Salad Bowl, French Dressing, Hot Bread, French Fried Potatoes, French Fried Onions, Ice Cream or Sherbert, Beverage." Located in Minneapolis at 701 2nd Avenue South and in St. Paul at 6th and St. Peter Streets.
Streetcar interior advertisement for the Lake Superior Limited. "Speeding daily betwen the Twin Ports [Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin] and St. Paul - Minneapolis. Northern Pacific."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Kildall's Ludefisk [Lutefisk]. "Kildall's Old Style Ludefisk, It's Good to Eat. The Harpoon in Every Fish Guarantees it Genuine. Holiday Cheer in Every Bite! Ask your Dealer for Geuine Old Style Ludefisk in new sanitary pacakages prepared only the Kildall Company, Importers Minneapolis."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Great Lakes Coal. "Service and satisfcation with our Quality Dustless Domestic Fuels, Great Lakes Coal & Dock Company."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Federal Housing Administration home financing. "With a small down payment your rent money will buy a home. Consult your architect, builder, material dealer or any participating financial institution Federal Housing Administration."
Streetcar interior advertisement for Duluth Van and Storage Company. "Storage! The only first-class Warehouse for storing household goods in the city. Special room for pianos. Duluth Van and Store Company. Warehouse 510, 512, 514 East Superior Street. Office 210 West Superior Street."
Streetcar interior advertisement for The Curtis Hotel, located at 10th Street at 3rd and 4th Avenue in Minneapolis. "Largest in the Midwest, Delightful Accomodations Always, Rooms $3.50 to $7.00, All Outside rooms with Bath, Garage. Dine in the friendly new Cardinal Room, Dinner Music by Dick Long's Orchestra."