2014.033.003

This scrapbook is labeled as “infrastructure” and includes information from the 1950s about the transition from horse-drawn cars to trolley cars. While most articles were reflecting on the changes in transportation from 1900-1950, there was a series of articles, breaking news, about the trolley crash in Pelham, New Hampshire where six people were killed in 1903. Photos in this scrapbook depict “the way it was” in the early 1900s with police in old-fashioned buggies in Boston. Also included in this scrapbook are postcards of Lowell circa 1905-1908 of the Textile School, St. John’s Hospital, and the Lowell Jail. An update in 1953 on the “Norumbega” Middlesex and Boston railway parlor car was given in the Eagle Tribune; this former railcar became a diner in South Boston. While most of this scrapbook contains information about trolleys and transportation on the East Coast (Boston, Maine, New York, etc.), some articles focus on the famous hill climbers in San Francisco.