Trolley Car on the intersection of 5th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia

Trolley Car on the intersection of 5th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia

Philadelphia; Transportation, Trolley, 5th Street, Arch Street

This photograph features a trolley car on the intersection of 5th and Arch Streets, as a police officer directs traffic. Philadelphia had one of the nation’s largest trolley systems, which enabled people without cars to travel inexpensively almost anywhere in the city.

Charles L. Howell

WCU HIS 601/ HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling

July 11, 1927

Kristen Waltz, Dante Silicato

Used by permission of PhillyHistory.org, a project of the Philadelphia Department of Records.

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