Some of these pictures are amazing - the clarity, and the way it looked.
American Cities at a much more simpler time.A selection of photos of the largest U.S. cities, made about 100 years ago.
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Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, in 1917. |
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Atlantic City, 1910. |
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The main street of Memphis, north of Avenue Gayoso, 1910. |
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Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, Florida, in
1910. |
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The beach in Atlantic City, 1915. |
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Grant Avenue after an earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. |
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Carts for transporting dairy. Thompson, Washington, 1927. |
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Washington, DC,
1914. |
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Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan, 1916. |
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Ninth Street, Washington DC, 1915. |
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Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, 1910. |
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Broad Street north of Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1905. |
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View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in 1909. |
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Fire at 55th Street, New York, 1915. |
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Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913. |
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Wabash Avenue, Chicago,
1907. |
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The New York Public Library, New York, 1915. |
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Wall Street, New York, 1911. |
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Manhattan, 1907. |
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The northern part of Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913. |
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City Hall – City Hall in New York. |
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Dexter Avenue and the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1906. |
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Valnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1910. |
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Washington, DC, 1913. |
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Broadway and the building of “The Times”, New York, 1915. |
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Size of Government in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1905. |
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Boston, MA, 1906. |
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Grand Central Station and Hotel, Manhattan, New York, 1903. |
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Treasury Building, Washington, DC,
1913. |
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Post Office, Brooklyn, New York, 1906. |
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Station “Louisville-Nashville”, Florida, in 1910. |
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