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- Today I learned
- Could this be …
- Highly desirable business for sale
- That easy?
- He was proud to be.
- There's a great future in plastics.
- They like holding hands and pitchin’ woo
- On the tracks to the left --
- Ham and ... hosiery?
- Spring fresh
- Nada Naugatuck view
- Still there, indeed
- Now Fort Drum
- Still there
- Armour's Star Brand
- Never again
- Hats off to him
- Razed, not blazed
- The height of luxury
- Fifty bucks says I can make the green
- Gone.
- Long way to Anywhere
- Lonely Road
- The font is everything
- Beautiful
- Woody's Words
- Nope, not that one
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Places
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.
Albany
Street scenes and cityscapes in the state capital of Albany, New York.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/11/2021 - 1:38pm
Ambridge
The factory town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 02/16/2020 - 12:11pm
Asbury Park
The seaside resort of Asbury Park, New Jersey.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 11/27/2012 - 8:19am
Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.
24 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 06/22/2020 - 2:52pm
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.
134 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 03/19/2021 - 11:09am
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.
78 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 06/01/2021 - 1:38pm
Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.
30 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 02/09/2021 - 2:05pm
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.
147 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:05pm
Brockton
Brockton, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.
6 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/05/2017 - 4:02pm
Buffalo NY
Buffalo, New York, street scenes, waterways and cityscapes.
53 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 07/22/2020 - 4:03pm
Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina, street scenes and cityscapes.
66 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/07/2020 - 1:23pm
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.
311 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 04/04/2021 - 11:04am
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.
81 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 07/08/2019 - 10:28am
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.
82 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 11/24/2020 - 12:15pm
Columbus, Ga.
81 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:33pm
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
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.
3068 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 04/17/2021 - 10:07pm
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.
347 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/21/2021 - 3:02pm
Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota, street scenes and cityscapes.
23 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 05/05/2021 - 1:42am
Florida
Vintage views of the Sunshine State.
324 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 06/15/2021 - 4:04pm
Grosse Ile
Grosse Ile, Michigan. Summer playground of the Detroit aristocracy.
8 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sat, 01/03/2015 - 3:20pm
Havana
Photos taken in and around Havana, Cuba.
10 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/12/2020 - 10:46am
Hot Springs
Hot Springs, Arkansas
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 08/20/2019 - 11:23pm
Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana, street scenes and cityscapes.
38 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/15/2020 - 4:21pm
Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.
28 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 03/03/2021 - 12:34pm
Kansas City MO
Kansas City, Missouri, street scenes and cityscapes.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:55pm
Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.
16 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/14/2018 - 6:08pm
Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas, street scenes and cityscapes. Little Rock City Hall and the Pulaski County Courthouse.
14 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:08am
Los Angeles
Los Angeles photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Los Angeles photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.
59 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/17/2021 - 9:24am
Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, street scenes and cityscapes.
29 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 11/06/2019 - 5:43pm
Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.
40 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/21/2018 - 11:06am
Miami
Landmarks including Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and Henry Flagler's resort hotels.
43 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 04/28/2021 - 3:06pm
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, street scenes and cityscapes.
33 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:30pm
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minneapolis-St. Paul street scenes and cityscapes.
47 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/24/2021 - 10:50am
Mobile
Mobile, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.
30 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/14/2018 - 11:28am
Montgomery
Montgomery, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.
11 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/08/2017 - 3:21pm
Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.
14 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 01/21/2020 - 4:21pm
New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, street scenes and cityscapes.
144 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 10/16/2020 - 11:09am
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
Norfolk, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.
19 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 02/23/2021 - 3:05pm
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.
1275 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 06/07/2021 - 3:30pm
Oak Ridge
Tennessee town where materials for the atomic bomb were manufactured in secret for the Manhattan Project during World War 2.
2 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 05/25/2021 - 2:09pm
OKC
Oklahoma City photos.
28 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 01/19/2020 - 8:24pm
Omaha
"Gateway to the West," the Big O is the largest city in Nebraska.
43 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 08/09/2020 - 8:41pm
Pensacola
Pensacola, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.
12 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 12/10/2017 - 8:57pm
Petoskey
Petoskey, Michigan, bustling metropolis of the Lower Peninsula.
10 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 04/20/2016 - 12:16pm
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, street scenes and cityscapes.
110 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:03pm
Pie Town
39 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 08/06/2020 - 6:28pm
Pittsburgh
Landmarks include steel mills, the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, Mount Washington, Smithfield Street, Pan Handle Bridge, Point Bridge, Duquesne Incline and Wabash Station.
112 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Sun, 10/04/2020 - 8:08pm
Providence
Providence, Rhode Island, street scenes and cityscapes.
20 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 05/28/2020 - 11:40am
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.
31 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 03/29/2019 - 10:38am
Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.
44 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 10/26/2020 - 4:45pm
Rochester
Rochester, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.
41 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:39am
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
San Francisco, California, street scenes and cityscapes. Aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire.
500 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 03/25/2021 - 12:49pm
Saratoga Springs
The resort town of Saratoga Springs, New York, nexus of horse racing and mineral water.
9 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:46am
Savannah
Savannah, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.
47 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/28/2021 - 1:24pm
Scranton
The rail hub of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
9 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 12/17/2018 - 11:38am
St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, street scenes and cityscapes.
36 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Fri, 05/05/2017 - 12:27pm
Syracuse
Syracuse, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.
26 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 07/30/2020 - 11:54am
Toledo
Toledo, Ohio, street scenes and cityscapes. Industrial facilities along the Maumee River.
34 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Thu, 02/25/2021 - 1:05pm
Utica
Utica, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.
13 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Mon, 05/25/2020 - 6:33pm
Vicksburg
Vicksburg, Mississippi, street scenes and cityscapes.
18 photos in this gallery
Last updated: Wed, 01/27/2021 - 1:36pm
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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