Would You Like to See How Big Cities Looked Like Hundred Years Ago?

It wasn’t long time ago when people have still used horses as the main instrument of transportation. Just about a hundred years ago, there were no cars, people were using horses for traveling, instead. Today, such scenes can be only seen in western movies and, for people who do live in this time when we are very close to jump on the next level of transportation technology: the flying cars, this information that just a few decades ago people were using horses for transportation could sound almost incredible. It is fascinating how humans are able to forget things. The photos of big cities from about hundred years ago are very rare and you have not much chance to find them, even today when there is almost nothing what can’t be found on the Internet. We have decided to share with you this great find of high resolution photos dating from the period between 1900 and 1910 which are available online thanks to Library if Congress research archive. There you can see how a street-life looked like one century ago.

Main Street Looking Toward Liberty,New York 1912

Louisville and Nashville Railway Station,Florida 1910

Forsyth Street, West from Main Jacksonville,Florida 1910

Sutter Street up from Grant Avenue After the Earthquake,San Francisco 1906

Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 1917

Cadillac Square Detroit, Michigan 1916

Main Street from Eleventh,Richmond Virginia 1905

5. Avenue and 42. Street, New York 1910

Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn 1909

The New York Public Library,New York 1915

City Hall Post Office,New york 1905

Walnut Street Cincinnati, Ohio 1910

Broadway and Times Building,New York 1915

Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan,New York 1903

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