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Black-and-white historical streetscape and skyline photographs of major American cities from the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and more.

  • 1914. "Pearl Street from State Street -- Albany, New York." Last seen here at street level, a decade earlier. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Albany

    Street scenes and cityscapes in the state capital of Albany, New York.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/07/2024 - 2:02pm

  • March 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. Men working on the firebox of an engine in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Albuquerque

    Largest city in New Mexico.

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 08/15/2024 - 4:14pm

  • January 1941. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Employees of American Bridge Company (United States Steel) waiting for the bus." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

    Ambridge

    The factory town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 02/16/2020 - 12:11pm

  • The Jersey Shore circa 1905. "Boardwalk at Asbury Park." Live it up while you can, folks. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Asbury Park

    The seaside resort of Asbury Park, New Jersey.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 11/27/2012 - 8:19am

  • May-June 1939. Atlanta, Georgia. "Woodworking shop at FSA warehouse depot." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Atlanta

    Atlanta, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 09/17/2022 - 1:11pm

  • Atlantic City, 1906. "A Sand Man." The fellow last seen here. Also the bottom half of Kite Guy. Don't Forget the Worker! 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Jersey Shore, along with the Boardwalk and its famous piers -- the Steel Pier, Steeplechase Pier, Young's Million-Dollar Pier, New Garden Pier and Auditorium Pier. Giant fire-prone hotels include the Chalfonte, Traymore, Marlborough-Blenheim and Islesworth Gardens.

    141 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 06/05/2024 - 8:59pm

  • March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. A yard jockey backing up a truck that has just come into the unloading platform at the Davidson truck terminal." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Baltimore

    The Charm City from the turn of the century to the 1940s, with landmarks including Johns Hopkins University, Lexington Market and Light Street. Photos from the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.

    92 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 09/13/2024 - 4:44pm

  • Birmingham, Alabama, 1906. "Southern Club and Birmingham Athletic Club, 20th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Birmingham

    Birmingham, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    35 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 06/01/2023 - 12:18pm

  • Boston circa 1912. "Public Library, Copley Square." Completed in MDCCCLXXXVIII -- which, in Roman numerals, requires more characters to write (13) than any other year to date. Also of note: The R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) at left, and streetcar to Holyhood Cemetery at right. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Boston

    Boston, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.

    159 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/13/2024 - 12:57pm

  • December 1940. "Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts." These houses, which look to have been built in the 1890s, must have been imposing in their day. Note the elaborate woodwork and intricate system of gutters and downspouts. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.

    Brockton

    Brockton, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 05/05/2017 - 4:02pm

  • Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Buffalo Public Library, Lafayette Square." (Beware browsing bison!) 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Buffalo NY

    Buffalo, New York, street scenes, waterways and cityscapes.

    54 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 09/19/2022 - 8:54pm

  • March 1936. "Nineteenth-century shop front. Charleston, South Carolina." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. View full size.

    Charleston

    Charleston, South Carolina, street scenes and cityscapes.

    68 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/11/2023 - 2:37pm

  • Chicago circa 1911. "Passenger terminal, Madison Street entrance, Chicago & North Western Railway." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Chicago

    Windy City landmarks including Michigan Avenue, Marshall Field's department store, the Chicago River, Grant Park, State Street, Van Buren Station and the Proviso Yard.

    355 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/03/2024 - 4:13pm

  • Circa 1915. "Mount Adams incline, Cincinnati, Ohio." An alternate view of the scene last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Cincinnati Photos

    Cincinnati photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Landmarks include Eden Park, the Price Hill Incline, Central Union Station, Mount Adams and the Ohio River. Cincinnati photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    88 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/28/2024 - 3:02pm

  • Circa 1905. "Freighter Manda unloading ore, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Cleveland

    Cleveland photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Landmarks include Public Square, League Park, the Colonial Arcade, Gordon Park and Lake Erie. Cleveland photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    91 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/08/2024 - 3:50pm

  • Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955. "Accident on 12th Street." Sandwiched between the post office and Collins Snack Bar. 4x5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.

    Columbus, Ga.

    104 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 01/07/2023 - 2:27pm

  • Coney Island, New York, circa 1905. "Luna Park at night." Panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives, previously seen here, here and here. View full size.

    Coney Island

    Historic Luna Park photos and Coney Island photos. This gallery includes photos of many famous Coney Island and Luna Park attractions. Coney Island photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    69 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/24/2019 - 11:19am

  • June 17, 1938. Washington, D.C. "No more hot air in Congress. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office Buildings." 4x5 glass negative by Harris & Ewing. View full size.

    D.C.

    Hundreds of Washington, D.C., photos showing the Capitol, White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington Monument, Smithsonian Institution, Union Station, Patent Office, National Mall, Bolling Field, Lincoln Memorial, Old Post Office and other landmarks in the nation's capital, from the Civil War to World War 2.

    3156 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/05/2024 - 10:18am

  • Detroit circa 1910. "People's State Bank, Fort and Shelby Streets." Designed by McKim, Mead & White. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Detroit Photos

    Landmarks including the Wayne County Building, Detroit City Hall, Hotel Pontchartrain, Ford Building, Dime Bank, Detroit Post Office, Woodward Avenue, the Campus Martius and Cadillac Square. Telling the story of the city from the turn of the century to the 1940s, these Detroit photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    416 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/28/2024 - 12:08pm

  • Duluth, Minnesota. "Up the incline from Superior Street." Competing for our attention with the Duluth Incline Railway is the trainyard fronted by Soo Line Station, and that 325-foot tower on the horizon. Built in 1910 by the Radio Wireless Telegraph Company, it blew over in a gale the following year. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Duluth

    Duluth, Minnesota, street scenes and cityscapes.

    24 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 05/18/2022 - 8:40pm

  • February 1943. "Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Physical education class." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Florida

    Vintage views of the Sunshine State.

    347 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 05/12/2024 - 5:46pm

  • Detroit circa 1900. "Grosse Ile duck farm -- feeding the ducklings." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Grosse Ile

    Grosse Ile, Michigan. Summer playground of the Detroit aristocracy.

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 01/03/2015 - 3:20pm

  • Circa 1904. "Havana, Cuba -- Calle Galleano." Where ropa y sederia beckon at The Big Store. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Havana

    Photos taken in and around Havana, Cuba.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/04/2024 - 9:41pm

  • March 28, 1901. "Happy Hollow -- Hot Springs, Arkansas." You can see more of Happy Hollow here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Hot Springs

    Hot Springs, Arkansas

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/20/2019 - 11:23pm

  • Indianapolis circa 1907. "Knights of Pythias Building (Castle Hall)." Last glimpsed here, 10 years ago! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Indianapolis

    Indianapolis, Indiana, street scenes and cityscapes.

    39 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 03/04/2022 - 12:01am

  • Bustling Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Forsyth Street looking east from Hogan." As in the previous view, the Post Office is at left, Hotel Seminole on the right. Note the city-issued JACKSONVILLE license plates. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    Jacksonville

    Jacksonville, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.

    31 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 10/12/2022 - 1:50pm

  • March 1943. "Kansas City, Missouri. Produce freight yard used by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Kansas City

    Kansas City -- both the Kansas and Missouri sides.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 07/31/2024 - 11:16am

  • June 1942. "Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority). Teen-age boys and girls train for defense work made possible by TVA at a National Youth Administration school." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

    Knoxville

    Knoxville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    18 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2023 - 5:33pm

  • Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1910. "Southern Trust Co. building." Tallest in the state at the time of its completion in 1907. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Little Rock

    Little Rock, Arkansas, street scenes and cityscapes. Little Rock City Hall and the Pulaski County Courthouse.

    15 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 04/15/2023 - 9:58am

  • May 30, 1967. "Luxury apartments for single boys and girls in Los Angeles." Poolside at the South Bay Club Apartments in Torrance on Memorial Day. 35mm negative by Don Ornitz for the Look magazine assignment "Boys and Girls Together." View full size.

    Los Angeles

    Los Angeles photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Los Angeles photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    66 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 01/09/2023 - 8:41pm

  • May 1940. "Street in Louisville, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Louisville

    Louisville, Kentucky, street scenes and cityscapes.

    30 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 04/01/2022 - 3:39pm

  • Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Shelby County Courthouse, Adams Avenue and Second Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Memphis

    Memphis, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    44 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 08/10/2024 - 8:51pm

  •       A holiday chestnut worth reheating over the Shorpy Duraflame. "Christmas 1954." My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000) in her living room in Miami Shores four years before I was born. She made the mantel decoration, which saw service for many years, with Brazilian pepper berries from a big tree in the backyard, mixed with pine cones, all attached to a chicken wire frame. Grandmother, handy with a needle and thread, also made the curtains. She was, needless to say, big on Christmas. 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.

    Miami

    Landmarks including Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and Henry Flagler's resort hotels.

    46 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 12/26/2023 - 11:25am

  • February 1943. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline tank trailers for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Mrs. Angeline Kwint, age 45, an ex-housewife, checking the tires of trailers. Her husband and son are in the U.S. Army." Kodachrome transparency by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, street scenes and cityscapes.

    36 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 11/08/2021 - 1:25pm

  • Minneapolis, 1908. "The flour milling district, from lower dam at St. Anthony's Falls." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Minneapolis-St. Paul

    Minneapolis-St. Paul street scenes and cityscapes.

    50 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 05/22/2023 - 6:24pm

  • March 1943. "John Phillips enroute to Mobile, Alabama, on U.S. Highway 29 near Greenville, Alabama." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Mobile

    Mobile, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 08/29/2024 - 1:17pm

  • March 1943. "Montgomery, Alabama. In front of City Hall." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Montgomery

    Montgomery, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    11 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 10/08/2017 - 3:21pm

  • August 1942. "Nashville, Tennessee. Welding parts for fuel pumps. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

    Nashville

    Nashville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    18 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 08/10/2023 - 6:09pm

  • 1906. "Mississippi River, Algiers Point (at right), steamship Excelsior -- New Orleans riverfront panorama." Made from four 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    New Orleans

    New Orleans, Louisiana, street scenes and cityscapes.

    154 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 08/12/2024 - 12:42am

  • Wellington, New Zealand, circa 1957. "Bond Street, formerly known as Old Customhouse Street, photographed between 1956 and 1961 by Gordon Burt. Shows a narrow city lane." National Library of New Zealand. View full size.

    New Zealand

    Images from the National Library of New Zealand online digital archive.

    72 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 06/12/2017 - 9:08am

  • Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1906. "Pine Beach -- amusements and boardwalk." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Norfolk

    Norfolk, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    22 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 03/24/2024 - 5:39pm

  • Lower Manhattan and the East River circa 1901. "Riverfront from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    NYC

    Landmarks in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and New York Harbor including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Singer Building, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, RCA Building ("30 Rock"), Rockefeller Center, Seagram Building, Woolworth Building, Metropolitan Life tower, Flatiron Building, Central Park, Union Square, Brooklyn Bridge, 59th Street Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan Bridge. Telling the story of the city from before the turn of the century through the 1940s, these New York photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    1370 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/12/2024 - 12:59pm

  • April 9, 1953. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. "Civil Defense air raid drill, Highland View School." Photo by Ed Westcott for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. View full size.

    Oak Ridge

    Tennessee town where materials for the atomic bomb were manufactured in secret for the Manhattan Project during World War 2.

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:24pm

  • November 1942. "Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Cot house." The California Dormitory, offering not just "clean cots," but checkers and dominoes. Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

    OKC

    Oklahoma City photos.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/18/2024 - 1:39pm

  • September 1941. "Cattlemen's bar and cafe near Union Stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Omaha

    "Gateway to the West," the Big O is the largest city in Nebraska.

    45 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 06/12/2023 - 10:37am

  • Pensacola, Florida, circa 1910. "Looking north on Palafox Street." Note the Pepsi-Cola streetcar stop. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Pensacola

    Pensacola, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/02/2023 - 10:35pm

  • Circa 1906. "Suburban station at Petoskey, Michigan." A locomotive of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, with a car bearing the names of Little Traverse Bay and Crooked and Walloon Lakes. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

    Petoskey

    Petoskey, Michigan, bustling metropolis of the Lower Peninsula.

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/20/2016 - 12:16pm

  • Philadelphia circa 1912. "Broad Street and City Hall tower." William Penn presiding over a profusion of hotels and theaters. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, street scenes and cityscapes.

    122 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 08/12/2024 - 3:35pm

  • June 1940. "The gasoline pumps at Pie Town, New Mexico." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Pie Town

    40 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/08/2021 - 12:33pm

  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1914. "Group of skyscrapers and Fifth Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Pittsburgh

    Landmarks include steel mills, the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, Mount Washington, Smithfield Street, Pan Handle Bridge, Point Bridge, Duquesne Incline and Wabash Station.

    120 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/06/2024 - 5:03pm

  • February 7, 1963. Providence, Rhode Island. "Post Office employees sitting at Central Control System overlooking work area." 35mm acetate negative by Thomas J. O'Halloran for the U.S. News & World Report assignment "Automated Post Office." View full size. 1959: "A Post Office Ordered With Full Automation"         WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Orders for the construction of "Project Turnkey," the nation's first fully mechanized Post Office, were given today by Postmaster Arthur E. Summerfield. The office will be built and equipped in Providence, R.I., by Intelex Systems Inc. of New York for an estimated cost of $20 million. Intelex, a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, will then lease it to the Post Office Department for twenty years at an annual rental of $1.4 million. The mail will be entirely handled by machinery ... " (N.Y. Times, Feb. 4, 1959) 1961: "House Group Finds Automated P.O. 'Fails Miserably' "         A House subcommittee charged yesterday that Project Turnkey, the new automated post office in Providence, R.I., has "failed miserably" to meet expectations and that its cost to the Government appears to be "grossly excessive." (Washington Post, March 2, 1961)

    Providence

    Providence, Rhode Island, street scenes and cityscapes.

    22 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 04/11/2022 - 12:52pm

  • January 1942. "Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Burning a sugar cane field. This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes the sugar cane easier to harvest." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Puerto Rico

    Photos taken by Jack Delano in Puerto Rico in 1942 for the Office of War Information. He liked the island so much he ended up moving there.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/10/2021 - 11:51am

  • Richmond, Virginia, circa 1913. "First National Bank." Rising 262 feet at the southwest corner of Ninth and Main Streets, this 19-story building, completed in 1913, was the city's first skyscraper. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Richmond

    Richmond, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    46 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 08/05/2024 - 4:37pm

  • Rochester, New York, circa 1908. "Masonic Temple, North Clinton Avenue and Mortimer Street." Our second visit to this august edifice affords a view of two lads whom we strongly suspect of being Up to Something. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

    Rochester

    Rochester, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    41 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:39am

  • Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "John Ward house, Prison Lane." Later moved to its current location on Essex Street. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

    Salem

    Salem, Massachusetts. Photos of historic structures including the Salem Witch House and House of Seven Gables.

    15 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 03/24/2015 - 7:59pm

  • San Francisco circa 1930. "William Taylor Hotel, McAllister and Leavenworth streets." This 28-story agglomeration of Gothic Revival, Art Deco and Art Moderne styles housed a "superchurch" -- Temple Methodist Episcopal, and was named in honor of the street preacher who formed the city's first Methodist congregation. Gelatin silver print. View full size.

    San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, street scenes and cityscapes. Aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    510 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/12/2023 - 12:21pm

  • August 1960. Saratoga Springs, New York. An uncaptioned Kodachrome snapped by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Saratoga: Where Horse Is King." View full size.

    Saratoga Springs

    The resort town of Saratoga Springs, New York, nexus of horse racing and mineral water.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/25/2023 - 6:35pm

  • Savannah, Georgia, in 1915. "View of Bull Street from Broughton Street showing the National Bank of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Savannah

    Savannah, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    54 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 09/11/2024 - 5:48pm

  • Circa 1900. "Nay Aug Tunnel, Scranton, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Scranton

    The rail hub of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 12/17/2018 - 11:38am

  • St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1930. "Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, Pine Street." Gelatin silver print by American Commercial Photographers. View full size.

    St. Louis

    St. Louis, Missouri, street scenes and cityscapes.

    37 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/10/2023 - 2:59pm

  • October 1941. "Deserted diner near Syracuse, New York." Serving "Best" ice cream, merely "Good" coffee and -- yum! -- "Regular" dinners. Acetate negative by John Collier. View full size.

    Syracuse

    Syracuse, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    28 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/29/2022 - 8:51pm

  • Toledo, Ohio, circa 1901. "Summit Street." In what seems to be the home furnishings district. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Toledo

    Toledo, Ohio, street scenes and cityscapes. Industrial facilities along the Maumee River.

    38 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 04/30/2023 - 8:59pm

  • Circa 1905. "Upper Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y." A scene framed by elms, hitching posts and streetcars. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Utica

    Utica, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:21am

  • Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1910. "First National Bank building, Washington and Clay streets." This junior skyscraper was the tallest building in the state when it was completed in 1907. Shopworn 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Vicksburg

    Vicksburg, Mississippi, street scenes and cityscapes.

    22 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/28/2024 - 12:21pm

  • Circa 1910. "St. Mary's Church and Ambery house ('Foxley'), Walkerville, Ontario." In the foreground, holders for the photographer's glass plates. "Foxley," designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn, was the residence of Clayton J. Ambery, an executive of the Hiram Walker distillery. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Walkerville

    Walkerville, Ontario, street scenes and cityscapes. Grounds and facilities of Hiram Walker & Sons, Distillers.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/14/2021 - 12:36pm

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