August 1, 2012
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
3) Elm Street, in Cincinnati, c. 1905
4) Wabasha Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, c. 1908
6) Canal Street in New Orleans, c. 1910
July 31, 2012
In this photo of Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street, c. 1900, you can see a sign adverising liveries, available from the Wanamaker & Brown store, who were clothiers, I would assume.
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.
The Slower Road 