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The Salt Lake Tribune occasionally presents images from its archives or from the Utah Historical Society in a special series called A Look Back. Today's installment is a collection of images from around the turn of the 20th century showing the transition from horse-drawn carriages to trains as a means of mass transportation.
Every gallery of the series is available at http://www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback. Previous installments showed:
Saloons, brewing companies in Utah around 1900
Utah Girl Scout's Cloud Camp Rim
Utah's WWII Candy Bomber
Salt Lake City's trolley system
Utah's small towns
Utahns in the military from the '40s and '50s
Salt Lake City's baseball park in the 1930s and 1940s
Salt Lake City's Memory Grove Park
Women's fashion from 1949-50
The centennial Days of '47 parade in downtown Salt Lake City from July 1947
Salt Lake City's Liberty Park from 1935 to 1951
Historical images of the 100-year-old Hotel Utah, currently The Joseph Smith Memorial Building
People and events in Salt Lake City from the 1930s, '40s and '50s