Wednesday, September 11, 2013

AMERICAN CITIES 100 YEARS AGO - Part 01

AMERICAN CITIES 100 YEARS AGO 
Part - 01

These are really professional photographers who took these pictures. 
Note how sharp and clear most of the photos are 
and these are over a 100 years old.

1.Woodward Avenue, Detroit , Michigan, in 1917. 


2.Atlantic City, 1910.
Wonder why they're carrying umbrellas - no sun! No rain! 


3.The main street of Memphis , north of Avenue Gayoso, 1910. 


4.Station “Louisville-Nashville,” Florida , in 1910. 


5.Forsyth Street, Jacksonville , Florida, in 1910.
Love those cars. 


6.The beach in Atlantic City , 1915. 


7.Grant Avenue after an earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.
I didn't realize there was so much destruction in that earthquake. 


8.Carts for transporting dairy Thompson , Washington , 1927.
How in the world did the dairy get those horses so evenly lined up.


9.Washington, DC, 1914.
Not so thoughty having those horses run on a railroad tracks.
(thoughty? must have been a popular word back in the day) 


10.Cadillac Square, Detroit , Michigan, 1916. 


11.Ninth Street, Washington DC, 1915. 


12.I wouldn't want to walk across this street in a long dress. 


13.Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street , New York , 1910. 


14.Broad Street north of Spruce Street , Philadelphia , 1905. 

15.View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in 1909. 



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