American Cities A Century ago - PRICELESS

 Professional photographers took these pictures... Note how sharp and clear most of the photos are and these are over 100 years old.  There aren't many old photos as good, remember they didn't have film or digital photo cards in those days.  Most probable is that these were glass plate images and taken thru a pin hole type camera and the opening was timed just right to get a dark enough exposure.  Developing was another tedious task which they had to be careful not to break the glass. 

  

American Cities a Century ago

I wish I could make these the original size, as they are huge and so much easier to see.

 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, in 1917.

 Atlantic City, 1910.

 The main street of Memphis, north of Avenue Gayoso, 1910.

 Station “Louisville-Nashville”, Florida, in 1910.

 Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, Florida, in 1910.

 The beach in Atlantic City, 1915.

 Grant Avenue after an earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.

 Carts for transporting dairy Thompson, Washington, 1927.

 Washington, DC, 1914.

 Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan, 1916.

Ninth Street, Washington DC, 1915.

 Main Street, Richmond, VA

Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, 1910.

 Broad Street north of Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1905.

 View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in 1909.

 Fire at 55th Street, New York, 1915.

 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.

 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907.

 The New York Public Library, New York, 1915.

 Wall Street, New York, 1911.

 Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.

 Manhattan, 1907.

 The northern part of Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.

 City Hall – City Hall in New York.

 Dexter Avenue and the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1906.

 Valnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1910.

 Washington, DC, 1913.

Broadway and the building of “The Times”, New York, 1915.