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[Photograph of United States National Bank Building Construction, #6]

Description: Photograph of the construction phase for the United States National Bank Building. People are walking along the street, with a trolley and parked cars in the left side of the photograph. Wood structures are placed a long the construction boundaries and established buildings fill in the background.
Date: December 22, 1923
Creator: Westlake Construction Company
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Switch.

Description: Patent for a switch for trolley lines that can be triggered from inside the trolley car.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Torrence, Otis M.
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Trolley-Pole.

Description: Patent for trolley-poles for electric cars which provides "a simple, inexpensive, and highly efficient trolley-wire finder, and one which is readily applicable to trolley-poles such as at present in use and is adapted to be quickly and easily raised to an operative position and when released is adapted to gravitate to a position below and out of the way of the trolley-wire" (lines 15-22).
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Schroeter, William & Kautzmann, August
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Street-Car.

Description: Patent for improving the construction of street cars which turn upon the truck. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date: December 29, 1885
Creator: Cutter, Martin A.
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Conduit Electric Railway.

Description: Patent for an underground conduit electric railway meant to propel cars. The conduit can be drained and kept dry, and a trolley attachment protects the conduit from dirt and water as well.
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: de Voe, William R.
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