Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Street Railway Association
This is an 1897 annual meeting report of the American Street Railway Association, published in Chicago by the association's office for street railway operators and urban transit men. The four pictures are rotated sideways: a tangle of overhead trolley wires and poles, a photograph of Convention Hall in Kansas City dated April 1896 with its arcaded facade, a close view of tall slender wooden poles, and a decorative ornamental monogram initial. A designer could draw on the Victorian monogram and the dense wire-and-pole street scenes for period transit imagery.
