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Tampa_Street_Railway_Company_steam_engine_number_2.jpg
Black and white image of a Tampa Street Railway Company engine and its workers.

Morgan_Line_paddlewheel_steamers_sharing_dock_with_vessel.jpg
Black and white image of several steamships at the Tampa docks in 1885. The image is captioned "Tampa, Fla., 1885" and "Population 600".

Elevated_view_of_Florida_Avenue_400700_blocks_looking_south_from_roof_of_a_building_on_Polk_Street_Tampa_Fla.jpg
A black and white image of Florida Avenue from a the roof of a building on Polk Street, Tampa. The streets do not appear to be paved.

Intersection_of_Monroe_and_Lafayette_streets_viewed_west_from_Court_House_Tampa_Fla.jpg
Black and white image of rural Tampa in 1882. "Hanging Tree" (used in vigilante justice) in forefront of image. Captioned "Tampa, Fla., 1882" and "Population 400".

Mercantile_building_at_300_Washington_Street_on_corner_of_Washington_Street_and_Franklin_Street_Tampa_Fla.jpg
The photograph shows a few shops on a nearly empty block, namely W. A. Givens Druggist and R. U. Ferris & Co. in the John T. Lesley Mercantile Building

piratesdredgingatnight.JPG
The print, originally published in Harper's Weekly in 1884, features pirates who were illegally poaching oysters from the Chesapeake Bay.

tool3tongers.JPG
The drawing features fishermen, or "tongers" using oyster tongs to harvest oysters.

oysterdredge2.JPG
A drawing of an oyster dredge from the Industrial Revolution period.

new doc 4_1.jpg
A copy of the Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Monthly Bulletin of the St. Mary’s County Historical Society
Volume 10, No. 8; August 1962. A report by General Robert Hogaboom, UMSC (Ret) on the history of the Southern Maryland Railroad.

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This photograph is one third of a panorama taken of the city of North Adams, c. 1913.
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