How Big Cities Looked Like Hundred Years Ago

It wasn’t long time ago when people have still used horses as the main instrument of transportation. Just about a hundred years ago, there were no cars, people were using horses for traveling, instead.

Today, such scenes can be only seen in western movies and, for people who do live in this time when we are very close to jump on the next level of transportation technology: the flying cars, this information that just a few decades ago people were using horses for transportation could sound almost incredible.
It is fascinating how humans are able to forget things. The photos of big cities from about hundred years ago are very rare and you have not much chance to find them, even today when there is almost nothing what can’t be found on the Internet.
We have decided to share with you this great find of high resolution photos dating from the period between 1900 and 1910 which are available online thanks to Library if Congress research archive. There you can see how a street-life looked like one century ago.

The Jersey Shore,Atlantic City 1910



Memphis Main Street, North from Gayoso Avenue 1910



Louisville and Nashville Railway Station,Florida 1910



Forsyth Street, West from Main Jacksonville,Florida 1910



Bathing in Front of the Big Hotels,Atlantic City 1915



Sutter Street up from Grant Avenue After the Earthquake,San Francisco 1906



Thompson Dairy Wagons,Washington, D.C 1927



Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 1917



Cadillac Square Detroit, Michigan 1916



Ninth Street,Washington, D.C 1915



Main Street from Eleventh,Richmond Virginia 1905



5. Avenue and 42. Street, New York 1910



Broad Street North from Spruce,Philadelphia 1905



Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn 1909



Subway Fire at West 55th Street,Broadway 1915



Fifth Avenue at 51st Street,New York 1913



Wabash Avenue,Chicago 1907



The New York Public Library,New York 1915



Wall Street 1911



Fifth Avenue Easter,New York 1913



Bridge of Sighs, Manhattan 1907



Fifth Avenue Looking North 1913



City Hall Post Office,New york 1905



Dexter Avenue and the Capitol Montgomery, Alabama 1906



Walnut Street Cincinnati, Ohio 1910



Woman suffrage-Hikers arriving in Washington from New York 1913



Broadway and Times Building,New York 1915



Government Square Cincinnati, Ohio 1905



Newspaper Row Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 1906



Jefferson Market Courthouse.Now a Library,New York City 1905



Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan,New York 1903



Traffic Safety in Washington with the Treasury Building 1913



Post Office and Eagle Building. Brooklyn, N.Y 1906



Fire truck Racing Past the Tea Cup Inn on F Street,Washington, D.C 1914