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Postcards · Circa 1930–1945, catalog range

Chapel Street looking west, New Haven

Streetcars, shoreline journeys, route guides & historic maps

A yellow streetcar appears on Chapel Street in a Tichnor Brothers linen postcard, cataloged circa 1930–1945.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States according to Commons PD-US-no-notice (published without copyright notice). Boston Public Library accession 06_10_004272, Tichnor card 61806. Catalog production range is not a camera date. Source stamp and numbering retained. Resized and WebP compressed only; no historical content added, retouched or removed.

Source: Tichnor Brothers, publisher; photographer unidentified; Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers Collection; Digital Commonwealth

Chapel Street looking west, New Haven
Tichnor Brothers, publisher; photographer unidentified; Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers Collection; Digital Commonwealth. Circa 1930–1945, catalog range. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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A yellow streetcar appears on Chapel Street in a Tichnor Brothers linen postcard, cataloged circa 1930–1945. The streetcar shares the downtown street with automobiles. The specimen’s OFFICE FILE stamp is part of the surviving publisher’s record.

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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven & West Haven Trolleys, SGC-TR-019, TR-010, “Chapel Street looking west, New Haven.” Source: Tichnor Brothers, publisher; photographer unidentified; Boston Public Library, Tichnor Brothers Collection; Digital Commonwealth. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapel_Street,_looking_west,_New_Haven,_Conn_(61806).jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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