undated
Ephemera / tickets and cards of admission / train tickets
GUSN-389625
These two small pink paper tickets have "Cambridge Railroad" on one side and "Union Railway Co." on the other. One side shows a line drawing of a street car being pulled by a team of horses. The other side indicates the ticket cost was 7 cents.
railroads
street-railroads
horsecars
tickets
tickets
2 paper tickets, 2 x .75 inches
EP001
Ephemera collection
2023
EP001.11.12.002.004
Gift
Gift of Frances Wetherell, 2023
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Cambridge Railroad Company (Issuing body)
tickets
Cambridge Railroad Company
Transportation
Item was rehoused for long-term preservation
Item
Ephemera / tickets and cards of admission / train tickets
The Cambridge Railroad (also known as the Cambridge Horse Railroad) was the first street railway in the Boston, Massachusetts area. The company was chartered and incorporated May 25, 1853, and started construction September 1, 1855. From its incorporation, the Cambridge Railroad was leased to the Union Railway for 50 years, later passing under control of the West End Street Railway in 1887 and the Boston Elevated Railway in 1897.
Cambridge Railroad. (2025, June 27). In Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Railroad
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