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| Title | First streetcar, Seattle, September 1884 |
| Photographer | Peiser, Theodore E. |
| Date | 1884 |
| Caption | In September 1884, Washington Territory's first streetcar line opened in Seattle. By the end of the year, the line had three miles of track and four streetcars which were operated by a total of ten men and twenty horses. One branch ran out to Lake Union, and the other ran to Front Street (First Avenue) and on to Queen Anne Hill. The horses that pulled the cars were stabled at the corner of Second Avenue and Pike Street.
This photo was taken on the September 1884 opening day of the Seattle Street Railway. Mayor John Leary and invited guests are seated in the horse-drawn streetcar at the intersection of Mill Street (Yesler Way) and Second Avenue. The tracks run through the dirt streets. Two Chinese pedestrians look on from the wooden sidewalk (right). |
| Notes | Handwritten on mount: Seattle Street Railway - the first street car, horse drawn. 1884.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Street railroads--Washington (State)--Seattle; Horses--Washington (State)--Seattle; Lampposts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Business districts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Commercial streets--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Pioneer Square (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 2002.3.439 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Lantern Slide Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 lantern slide: color; 2 1/4 x 3 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original lantern slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
