Description: This is an image of Railway Post Office streetcar #642, part of the Boston Elevated Railway. This car traveled on Malden, Broadway, and Ferry streets between Charlestown and Post Office Square.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1900
Collection: U.S. Railway Mail Service
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-63
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194315
Lim5369, samaloney26, carinasmama2001, jjgg77, and 4 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Brenda Anderson 54 months ago | reply
Looking more closely at the sign (and knowing the geography of the Boston area), the description would be more accurate if it said "traveled to Malden via Broadway and Ferry Streets".
This map of the Elevated system (found on Wikipedia) might be of interesting as it shows the line heading north from Charlestown up through Everett (on Broadway) and then on to Ferry St to Malden.
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Seen in a discussion of the group "Flickr Commons" (?)
striatic 53 months ago | reply
This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Delivering the Mail
lisa-skorpion 50 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Die Erinnerungen, and we'd love to have this added to the group!