Horse-Drawn Streetcar on the Munich Ring Line, 1900

The black-and-white photograph shows a horse-drawn streetcar on the Munich Ring Line in 1900. Horse-drawn streetcars are considered the forerunners of today's streetcars. Their carriages, which often still resembled traditional carriages, were pulled by horses over rails. There were rarely fixed stops; instead, passengers could jump on and off during the journey. The last German horse-drawn streetcar operated on the island of Spiekeroog until 1949.

Horse Streetcar on the Ring Line (ca. summer 1900), black-and-white photograph, ca. 1900, unknown photographer; source: München Wiki, https://www.muenchenwiki.de/wiki/Datei:Ringlinie_1900.jpg, public domain.