undated
Ephemera / tickets and cards of admission / train tickets
GUSN-389628
Paper ticket bears a line drawing with a horse pulling a street car with the words Highland Street Railway along the top. In the background is a structure with the words Highland Street Railway on its facade.
horsecars
tickets
tickets
1 paper ticket, 2 x .75 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
2023
EP001.11.12.002.006
Gift
Gift of Frances Wetherell, 2023
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Highland Street Railway (Issuing body)
tickets
Highland Street Railway
Transportation
Item was rehoused for long-term preservation
Item
Ephemera / tickets and cards of admission / train tickets
"Highland Street Railway commenced operations on October 22, 1872. Its purpose was to directly compete with the Metropolitan Railroad that owned the horse car tracks south of Scollay Square in downtown Boston.The Horse Railroad Wars were going on, with massive car blockades being a daily occurrence. Strings of horse cars of competing railroads would clog up the narrow streets of downtown Boston, which would then spread out to various districts outside the city center. Such bottlenecks eventually led to the consolidation of several horse car companies into the West End Street Railway in 1887, and later why the subways were built." -from Celebrate Boston
Celebrate Boston (2020). The Highland Street Railway Company.www.celebrateboston.com/mbta/highland-street-railway
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