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- Street Scene in Bangor, Maine, circa 1890 - Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- circa 1890
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Street Scene in Bangor, Maine, circa 1890
Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- Electric Streetcar and Horse-Drawn Vehicles on City Street in Bangor, Maine, circa 1885 - Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- circa 1885
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Electric Streetcar and Horse-Drawn Vehicles on City Street in Bangor, Maine, circa 1885
Horse-drawn drawn vehicles, pedestrians, and an electric streetcar share a street lined with shops in this photograph of Bangor, a prosperous nineteenth-century lumber port on Maine's Penobscot River.
- 1952 Federal 45M Truck Tractor, Used by Cole's Express - When this truck was new, about 120,000 tractor-trailers traveled the roads. By 2000, there were over two million. New interstate highways helped long-haul trucks dominate the freight business. Americans developed a romantic image of truckers as modern cowboys roaming concrete trails, speaking their own language on CB radios. Drivers became heroes of movies and music. But real truck driving is demanding, sometimes dangerous, and often boring work.
- 1952
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1952 Federal 45M Truck Tractor, Used by Cole's Express
When this truck was new, about 120,000 tractor-trailers traveled the roads. By 2000, there were over two million. New interstate highways helped long-haul trucks dominate the freight business. Americans developed a romantic image of truckers as modern cowboys roaming concrete trails, speaking their own language on CB radios. Drivers became heroes of movies and music. But real truck driving is demanding, sometimes dangerous, and often boring work.
- 1946 Fruehauf Semi-Trailer, Used by Cole's Express - This 1946 Fruehauf Model FF Aerovan was a standard dry freight trailer during the 1940s. A freight trailer was a simple idea. Built with no front axle, the trailer's front is supported by a vehicle that pulls it, now called a tractor. This trailer has been painted to match the tractor used by the Coles Express, Inc., of Maine.
- 1946
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1946 Fruehauf Semi-Trailer, Used by Cole's Express
This 1946 Fruehauf Model FF Aerovan was a standard dry freight trailer during the 1940s. A freight trailer was a simple idea. Built with no front axle, the trailer's front is supported by a vehicle that pulls it, now called a tractor. This trailer has been painted to match the tractor used by the Coles Express, Inc., of Maine.