A photo collection that shows what everyday life of the U.S. looked like from the 1900s and 1910s.
Chinatown, New York, 1900 |
Broadway in Skagway, Alaska, 1900 |
Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900 |
Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900 |
French Market in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900 |
Key West, Florida, circa 1900 |
Market Square in Cleburne, Texas, 1900 |
Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, circa 1900 |
Tampa Bay Hotel in Tampa, Florida, 1900 |
The obelisk in Central Park, New York, circa 1900 |
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, circa 1900 |
West Street, New York City, 1900 |
Georgetown, Colorado, 1901 |
Hanging rock on the Susquehanna near Danville, Pennsylvania, 1901 |
Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 1901 |
Hotel Royal Palm in Miami, Florida, 1901 |
Mining structure in Alaska, 1901 |
Navajo Indian school in Tohatchi, New Mexico, 1901 |
North face of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1901 |
The lakefront from Illinois Central Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1901 |
Chicago & North Western Railway, steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, 1902 |
The beach and Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1902 |
The Congressional Library in Washington, D.C., 1902 |
El Paso, Texas, 1903 |
Lake and bridge in Central Park, New York, 1903 |
Loading steamer during high water in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903 |
New York from under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1903 |
Old French court yard in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903 |
S.S. Proteus. High water at New Orleans levee, 1903 |
Santa Fe Railroad Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1903 |
Williamsburg Bridge, New York, 1903 |
'CASE' Corporate Building in Racine, Wisconsin, 1904 |
Driving Park Avenue bridge and falls on Genesee River, Rochester, New York, 1904 |
C. & O. terminal piers, Newport News, Virginia, 1905 |
Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, 1905 |
Hotel Virginia in Long Beach, California, 1905 |
Stock Exchange in New York, 1905 |
Transfer steamer in Detroit, Michigan, 1905 |
U.S.S. Maryland in dry dock, Charelstown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 1905 |
Unloading cotton in Memphis, Tennessee, 1905 |
Edge of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, 1906 |
Italian headquarters, Madison Street, New Orleans, 1906 |
Livestock exchange in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906 |
Manhattan skyline and East River, New York, 1906 |
Ruins of City Hall after the earthquake in San Francisco, California, 1906 |
Southern Railway station in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1906 |
The Dexter Avenue and the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1906 |
High Bridge and Kentucky River, 1907 |
Kentucky River and High Bridge, 1907 |
Mexican adobe house in El Paso, Texas, 1907 |
The Water Tower in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 1907 |
A New England granite quarry, 1908 |
Grand Central Terminal under construction, New York, 1908 |
Milling district, from lower dam, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1908 |
Manhattan Bridge Under Construction, circa 1909 |
A Deluxe overland limited train, Colorado, 1910 |
Blackwell's Island Bridge in New York, 1910 |
Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C., 1910 |
Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1910 |
Packard Motor Car Company, Auto Plant in Detroit, Michigan, 1910 |
Panorama of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910 |
St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida, 1910 |
Street scene in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1910 |
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1910 |
Arrowrock Dam in Idaho, 1914 |
The Lincoln Memorial construction, 1914 |
Front Street covered with snow in Nome, Alaska, 1915 |
Packard Motor Co. in Detroit, Michigan, 1915 |
Raw sugar mill in the Hawaiian Islands, 1915 |
Road construction in Tanana, Alaska, 1916 |
The Old Inn in Ester, Alaska, 1916 |
View of Nome, Alaska with snow on ground, 1916 |
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., January 1917 |
Manhattan Bridge in New York, under Construction, 1919 |