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Old Tacoma Washington Framed Print: Eleventh Street, Early 1900s Vintage Postcard

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Vintage Eleventh Street Tacoma framed print, restored from an original early 1900s postcard: "Eleventh Street, Tacoma, Wash."

This print shows Eleventh Street climbing the hill between brick storefronts, with horse-drawn wagons, streetcar tracks, and strolling shoppers. It's reproduced from an original antique postcard in our own collection, scanned at 1200 dpi and carefully restored: we removed dust, specks, and the printing dot pattern and brightened the faded inks, while keeping the original color and printed caption.

A LITTLE HISTORY
11th Street climbs steeply from the waterfront up through downtown Tacoma. The hill was too much for ordinary horsecars, so in the early 1890s the city got its only cable car line, which ran up 11th from A Street to K Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) and back down 13th. It kept running until April 1938, just two months before the city's last streetcar. At the bottom of the hill, the 11th Street Bridge over the City Waterway opened in 1913. Renamed the Murray Morgan Bridge in 1997, after the Tacoma historian who once worked as its bridge tender, it still carries traffic today.

THE SET
The same postcard is also on a mug, an ornament, a puzzle, a coaster, a tea towel, a poster and a canvas.

Details:
- Restored reproduction of an antique early 1900s Tacoma postcard
- The postcard is shown on a cream border, like a mounted print
- Museum-quality matte paper behind a protective acrylic cover
- Kiln-dried pine frame in black, walnut, or white
- Hanging hardware is built into the back of the frame, so it arrives ready to hang
- Restored by us, printed and framed by our production partner
- Ships to US addresses only

Please note: this is a new print, not the original postcard. Small marks of age are part of the original card's character. Colors may vary slightly between screens and printed products. Sizes and frame colors are shown in the listing options.

Gift idea: A great gift for Tacoma history buffs, old-house owners, and anyone who loves the City of Destiny, or a piece of home for a Tacoman who moved away.

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