July 30, 2012
Are you up for a few more old street scenes? I hope you enjoy these …
3) the Seelbach Hotel, on Fourth Street in Louisville, c. 1907
4) the Astor House Hotel, at Vesey Street and Broadway (New York), c. 1908
5) Fourth Street in Cincinnati, c. 1910
6) Genesee and Bleecker Streets in Utica, New York, c. 1910
July 29, 2012
In 1908, five years after the photo in yesterday’s post, someone took this photo, which shows a portion of F Street, looking toward the Dept. of Treasury building. I just love the variety of traffic and horse-drawn vehicles. Way in the background, at the end of the street, the Treasury building looks like it was having some fairly major construction or repair work done.
July 28, 2012
I’m still drawn each day to finding new (old) photos on the website with all the high-resolution (in other words, huge and crystal clear) old photos. It would appear that most of them have been scanned from big (8- by 10-inch) glass negatives. These would have been from large-format cameras, which would explain the clarity. Well, as long as no one moved around too much.
Today: a glimpse back at Washington, DC, in 1903, looking down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the capitol building. There are streetcars (lots of streetcars), pedestrians, delivery vehicles, wagons, owner-driven vehicles, a coachman-driven vehicle, and even what looks like a horse-drawn billboard.
July 27, 2012
More old photos! …
1) traffic in front of Boston’s Tremont Temple, c. 1900
2) mule teams wait while cotton is loaded (unloaded?) by the levee in New Orleans, c. 1903
4) hotel buses waiting at the train station in Atlantic City, New Jersey, c. 1906
5) three children and a furry pony in Washington, DC, circa 1917
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Still more to come …
July 26, 2012
Here are links to more wonderful old photos with driving horses. (And you’ve figured out by now that you can scroll up and down and side to side to see every bit of these huge photos, right?)
1) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, c. 1901
2) piers at the foot of Wall Street, New York, c. 1905 (with a lovely Colgate & Co. wagon)
4) crossing the Kentucky River on a ferry at High Bridge, Kentucky, c. 1907
5) workers loading a wagon at a granite quarry in Concord, New Hampshire, c. 1908
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This website is rapidly becoming one of my favorites, so expect more links to more old photos!
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