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August 5, 2012

taxis

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And for today: horse-drawn cabs lined up outside the Union Depot in Memphis, Tennessee, c. 1907. Some things never change, eh?

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August 4, 2012

horses, carriages, a ship

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For today, just one wonderful old photo: a wide panoramic view of the Holland America docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1910. There’s a fabulous array of horse-drawn vehicles here … and a big ship.

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August 1, 2012

and even more street scenes!

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After yesterday’s break for a bit of early-twentieth-century advertising, here are a few more street scenes.

1) Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas, c. 1900

2) the street in front of New York City’s “City Hall Post Office” (built in 1880 and demolished in 1939), c. 1905

3) Elm Street, in Cincinnati, c. 1905

4) Wabasha Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, c. 1908

5) Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, DC), looking west from the Old Post Office, c. 1910 (the imposing building in the center, with the two flags, is the Willard Hotel, and behind it are the U.S. Treasury, the White House, and the Old Executive Office Building)

6) Canal Street in New Orleans, c. 1910

 

July 30, 2012

more street scenes

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Are you up for a few more old street scenes? I hope you enjoy these …

1) the post office on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, c. 1904, with three horse-drawn vehicles: a tank truck of some sort, a Hansom Cab, and what looks like a coachman-driven vehicle (a Brougham, perhaps?)

2) Washington Street in Boston, c. 1906 (don’t miss the salesman advertising “Daniel’s Horse Colic Cure” on his umbrella!)

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

another view of the nation’s capital

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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.

 

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