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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.

Albany

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

13 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 11/16/2021 - 9:54pm

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.

25 photos in this gallery

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

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.

135 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 01/02/2022 - 1:02pm

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.

80 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 02/01/2023 - 3:01pm

Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

35 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 01/22/2023 - 2:55pm

Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.

155 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 08/19/2022 - 12:15pm

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.

54 photos in this gallery

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

Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina, street scenes and cityscapes.

68 photos in this gallery

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

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.

323 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 1:49pm

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.

86 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 12/04/2022 - 2:46pm

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.

84 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 01/26/2022 - 2:31pm

Columbus, Ga.

104 photos in this gallery

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

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.

3117 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/16/2023 - 8:22pm

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.

375 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 01/30/2023 - 1:30pm

Duluth

Duluth, Minnesota, street scenes and cityscapes.

24 photos in this gallery

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

Florida

Vintage views of the Sunshine State.

335 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 11/15/2022 - 1:12am

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.

39 photos in this gallery

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

Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.

31 photos in this gallery

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

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.

17 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 11/16/2022 - 2:24pm

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.

66 photos in this gallery

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

Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky, street scenes and cityscapes.

30 photos in this gallery

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

Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

43 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 11/11/2022 - 11:13am

Miami

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

45 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 05/27/2022 - 4:50pm

Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, street scenes and cityscapes.

36 photos in this gallery

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

Minneapolis-St. Paul

Minneapolis-St. Paul street scenes and cityscapes.

49 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 11/10/2022 - 4:16pm

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.

16 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Wed, 10/05/2022 - 10:25am

New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana, street scenes and cityscapes.

151 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Fri, 01/27/2023 - 9:10pm

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.

21 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 06/29/2021 - 4:24pm

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.

1318 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Mon, 02/06/2023 - 1:48pm

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

OKC

Oklahoma City photos.

29 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 03/03/2022 - 11:55pm

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.

115 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/22/2022 - 1:57pm

Pie Town

40 photos in this gallery

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

Pittsburgh

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

115 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/02/2021 - 1:53pm

Providence

Providence, Rhode Island, street scenes and cityscapes.

22 photos in this gallery

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

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

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.

508 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Tue, 01/31/2023 - 6:08pm

Saratoga Springs

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

11 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sun, 08/21/2022 - 3:52pm

Savannah

Savannah, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.

49 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 09/15/2022 - 11:16am

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.

28 photos in this gallery

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

Toledo

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

37 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Thu, 08/04/2022 - 4:56pm

Utica

Utica, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

14 photos in this gallery

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

Vicksburg

Vicksburg, Mississippi, street scenes and cityscapes.

20 photos in this gallery

Last updated: Sat, 01/21/2023 - 5:35pm

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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