Downtown Streetcar Boulevard

A busy urban thoroughfare framed by a monumental Classical Revival / Beaux-Arts commercial block on the right, with tall Corinthian-style columns and arched windows. Multiple double-truck streetcars run on center tracks, with horse-drawn wagons and what appears to be a few early motorcars sharing the roadway; the transit mix likely dates to circa 1900s-1910s. Pedestrians in Edwardian-era dress populate the sidewalks - men in suits and bowler hats and women in long skirts and large hats - and signage for "Humboldt Savings Bank" is visible on a distant tower. The image is from a glass slide and documents the layered commercial and transit life of a turn-of-the-century American downtown.