Street-railroads -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis Metropolitan Area

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The Edward V. Lofstrom Collection consists of one box of materials including: newspaper clippings, correspondence, design prints, and reports from the 1960s-1990s concerning transit matters in the Twin Cities. Many published reports were removed from the collection and catalogued into the Minneapolis and Hennepin County Collection.

Description of Contents The collection includes 7 diaries written by Ezra Fitch Pabody between 1882 and 1890. The journals chronicle everything about his daily life, school, family, church, exercise, nature, and explorations of the city. Ezra Fitch described many interesting historical events in Minneapolis. He noted the shooting of Jesse James, the killing of three bears at Lake Calhoun, the day he went with his Aunt Myra to listen to Mark Twain speak at the Grand Opera House, and the electric light mast at...

Description of Contents The collection consists of a binder containing two distinct sections. The first section contains a report prepared by Fletcher in 1976 (with a foreward later added in 1981) for the Hiawatha Avenue Citizens Advisory Committee advocating for a light rail line along Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis. Fletcher's proposal includes a suggested route map, mockups of stations and crossings, financial estimates and comparisons to light rail projects then underway in other cities. Fletcher's proposal...