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(Partial transcription) “The special committee on Electric Sights presented a report recommending that the proposition to furnish the City with twelve arc lights, at 60 (cents) each per night, be accepted, but that the length of time for which the…

Black and white image of a Tampa Street Railway Company engine and its workers.

The photograph shows a few shops on a nearly empty block, namely W. A. Givens Druggist and R. U. Ferris & Co. in the John T. Lesley Mercantile Building

The Quarantine is officially announced and May 10th is established as the date of its official implementation. The regulations establish the position of Quarantine Inspector for the city, and that this position be given to Dr. D. M. Burgess. The…

A Quarantine was established as an area in the port of Tampa at which all goods and individuals arriving from South and Central American and West Indian Ports would be inspected. At the meeting the establishment of the specific regulations of said…

As the port of Tampa was starting to attract more traffic from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, the Town Council of Tampa began to worry about the potential spread of disease that this new influx of peoples and commodities might bring. This law…

Black and white image of a street corner. Nearest building topped with the words "REAL ESTATE." Apparent workers standing outside.

This 1895 photograph features a Refrew trolley (owned by the Hoosac Valley Street Railway Company) turning at the corner of sounthern Main Street and State Street in downtown North Adams. This was one of the many trolleys which ran along the trolley…

Vaucluse Division Mill of the Graniteville Manufacturing Company in Vaucluse (S.C.).