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Black-and-white historical streetscape and skyline photographs of major American cities from the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and more.

  • 1914. "Pearl Street from State Street -- Albany, New York." Last seen here at street level, a decade earlier. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Albany

    Street scenes and cityscapes in the state capital of Albany, New York.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/07/2024 - 2:02pm

  • March 1943. "Santa Fe Railroad activities across New Mexico. Men coming out of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad shops in Albuquerque at the end of the day's shift." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Albuquerque

    Largest city in New Mexico.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 12/05/2024 - 4:39pm

  • January 1941. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Employees of American Bridge Company (United States Steel) waiting for the bus." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

    Ambridge

    The factory town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 02/16/2020 - 12:11pm

  • The Jersey Shore circa 1905. "Boardwalk at Asbury Park." Live it up while you can, folks. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Asbury Park

    The seaside resort of Asbury Park, New Jersey.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 11/27/2012 - 8:19am

  • April 12, 1912. Atlanta, Georgia. "Southern Iron & Equipment Co. -- Locomotive SIECO 807. (West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Locomotive 1; Dobbins, West Virginia. Climax Loco #534, 1904)." 8x10 glass negative, Marre Rail Transportation Photo Collection. View full size.         The Southern Iron & Equipment Company of Atlanta was a major reconditioner of locomotives circa 1900-1960, refurbishing them for resale. The company also did repair and reconditioning work on behalf of various railroads.

    Atlanta

    Atlanta, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    26 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 03/01/2025 - 7:46pm

  • The Steel Pier circa 1910. "Watching the bathers -- Atlantic City, New Jersey." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Jersey Shore, along with the Boardwalk and its famous piers -- the Steel Pier, Steeplechase Pier, Young's Million-Dollar Pier, New Garden Pier and Auditorium Pier. Giant fire-prone hotels include the Chalfonte, Traymore, Marlborough-Blenheim and Islesworth Gardens.

    143 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 06/28/2025 - 1:35pm

  • Baltimore circa 1906. "Looking north from Mount Vernon Place." A plaza whose statuary stars the noted jurist Roger B. Taney as well as three-time Maryland governor John Howard, signaling a right turn. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Baltimore

    The Charm City from the turn of the century to the 1940s, with landmarks including Johns Hopkins University, Lexington Market and Light Street. Photos from the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904.

    106 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 05/19/2025 - 4:09pm

  • Birmingham, Alabama, 1906. "Southern Club and Birmingham Athletic Club, 20th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Birmingham

    Birmingham, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    35 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 06/01/2023 - 12:18pm

  • Boston circa 1904. "Descent into subway, Public Gardens." A portal last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Boston

    Boston, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.

    165 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 06/15/2025 - 12:16am

  • December 1940. "Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts." These houses, which look to have been built in the 1890s, must have been imposing in their day. Note the elaborate woodwork and intricate system of gutters and downspouts. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.

    Brockton

    Brockton, Massachusetts, street scenes and cityscapes.

    6 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 05/05/2017 - 4:02pm

  • Buffalo, New York, circa 1910. "Main Street -- German Insurance Building -- Lafayette Square." Panoramic composite of two 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    Buffalo NY

    Buffalo, New York, street scenes, waterways and cityscapes.

    58 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 07/25/2025 - 10:32am

  • Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1915. "Old Public Market." Market Hall on Meeting Street, with signage advertising a "Collection of Confederate Pictures & Relics, Open to Visitors." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Charleston

    Charleston, South Carolina, street scenes and cityscapes.

    69 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 06/07/2025 - 11:03am

  • Chicago circa 1910. "Entrance to Auditorium Annex (i.e., Congress Hotel), Michigan Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Chicago

    Windy City landmarks including Michigan Avenue, Marshall Field's department store, the Chicago River, Grant Park, State Street, Van Buren Station and the Proviso Yard.

    359 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/17/2025 - 7:39am

  • Circa 1915. "Mount Adams incline, Cincinnati, Ohio." An alternate view of the scene last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Cincinnati Photos

    Cincinnati photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Landmarks include Eden Park, the Price Hill Incline, Central Union Station, Mount Adams and the Ohio River. Cincinnati photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    88 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/28/2024 - 3:02pm

  • Circa 1905. "Freighter Manda unloading ore, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Cleveland

    Cleveland photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Landmarks include Public Square, League Park, the Colonial Arcade, Gordon Park and Lake Erie. Cleveland photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    91 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 09/08/2024 - 3:50pm

  • From around 1970, another young person from the Columbus, Georgia, news photo archive. A bangs-dimples-smile trifecta! 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

    Columbus, Ga.

    106 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 01/05/2025 - 11:44pm

  • Coney Island, New York, circa 1905. "Luna Park at night." Panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives, previously seen here, here and here. View full size.

    Coney Island

    Historic Luna Park photos and Coney Island photos. This gallery includes photos of many famous Coney Island and Luna Park attractions. Coney Island photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    69 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/24/2019 - 11:19am

  • Washington, D.C., 1902. "United States Capitol, East Front, central part of building." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    D.C.

    Hundreds of Washington, D.C., photos showing the Capitol, White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington Monument, Smithsonian Institution, Union Station, Patent Office, National Mall, Bolling Field, Lincoln Memorial, Old Post Office and other landmarks in the nation's capital, from the Civil War to World War 2.

    3182 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 08/13/2025 - 4:14pm

  • Detroit circa 1910. "Majestic Building -- Woodward and Michigan Avenues." Home to Servself Lunch in the basement, a Weather Bureau station on the roof, and Dr. Deimel's Linen-Mesh Underwear store in between. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Detroit

    Landmarks including the Wayne County Building, Detroit City Hall, Hotel Pontchartrain, Ford Building, Dime Bank, Detroit Post Office, Woodward Avenue, the Campus Martius and Cadillac Square. Telling the story of the city from the turn of the century to the 1940s, these Detroit photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    436 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/12/2025 - 7:30pm

  • Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1902. "Post office and custom house, First Street and Fourth Avenue." Completed in 1894; demolished in 1935. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Duluth

    Duluth, Minnesota, street scenes and cityscapes.

    25 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 01/27/2025 - 11:53am

  • Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1912. "Aragon Hotel, Forsyth & Julia Streets." The humble hostelry last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Florida

    Vintage views of the Sunshine State.

    356 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/29/2025 - 10:27pm

  • Detroit circa 1900. "Grosse Ile duck farm -- feeding the ducklings." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Grosse Ile

    Grosse Ile, Michigan. Summer playground of the Detroit aristocracy.

    8 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 01/03/2015 - 3:20pm

  • Circa 1904. "Havana, Cuba -- Calle Galleano." Where ropa y sederia beckon at The Big Store. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Havana

    Photos taken in and around Havana, Cuba.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/04/2024 - 9:41pm

  • Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1906. "Central Avenue South." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Hot Springs

    Hot Springs, Arkansas

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 04/04/2025 - 5:04pm

  • Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1907. "Meridian Street -- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Indianapolis

    Indianapolis, Indiana, street scenes and cityscapes.

    40 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/17/2025 - 1:30pm

  • Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1912. "Aragon Hotel, Forsyth & Julia Streets." The humble hostelry last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Jacksonville

    Jacksonville, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.

    35 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/29/2025 - 10:27pm

  • March 1943. "Kansas City, Missouri. Produce freight yard used by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad." Acetate negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size.

    Kansas City

    Kansas City -- both the Kansas and Missouri sides.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 07/31/2024 - 11:16am

  • June 1942. "Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority). Teen-age boys and girls train for defense work made possible by TVA at a National Youth Administration school." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.

    Knoxville

    Knoxville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    18 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 05/27/2023 - 5:33pm

  • Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1910. "Southern Trust Co. building." Tallest in the state at the time of its completion in 1907. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Little Rock

    Little Rock, Arkansas, street scenes and cityscapes. Little Rock City Hall and the Pulaski County Courthouse.

    15 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 04/15/2023 - 9:58am

  • July 1951. Los Angeles, California. "Nipper, a two-year-old cat owned by Dorothy Brinn of Hollywood, likes to eat his corn in comfort, so his mistress fixed up this skewer. The cat uses it for about two ears a day, having been a corn addict since his kitten days. Nip likes it best with butter." Acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

    Los Angeles

    Los Angeles photos and historic images from the turn of the century. Los Angeles photos can be purchase as fine-art prints.

    68 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 08/07/2025 - 12:34pm

  • 1906. "Louisville, Kentucky -- Fourth Avenue." At right, the First Christian Church of Louisville. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Louisville

    Louisville, Kentucky, street scenes and cityscapes.

    31 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 04/07/2025 - 5:57pm

  • May 1940. Memphis, Tennessee. "Main Street at night during Cotton Carnival." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Memphis

    Memphis, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    44 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/02/2025 - 12:38pm

  •       A holiday chestnut worth reheating over the Shorpy Duraflame. "Christmas 1954." My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000) in her living room in Miami Shores four years before I was born. She made the mantel decoration, which saw service for many years, with Brazilian pepper berries from a big tree in the backyard, mixed with pine cones, all attached to a chicken wire frame. Grandmother, handy with a needle and thread, also made the curtains. She was, needless to say, big on Christmas. 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.

    Miami

    Landmarks including Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and Henry Flagler's resort hotels.

    46 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 12/26/2023 - 11:25am

  • Milwaukee, 1900. "Hotel Pfister." Completed in 1893, and still standing at Wisconsin Avenue and Jefferson Street. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, street scenes and cityscapes.

    37 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 05/01/2025 - 7:06pm

  • Circa 1902. "St. Paul, Minnesota, from across the Mississippi River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Minneapolis-St. Paul

    Minneapolis-St. Paul street scenes and cityscapes.

    52 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 01/29/2025 - 6:11pm

  • Mobile, Alabama, circa 1906. "Government Street, looking east." On what seems to have been trash day. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Mobile

    Mobile, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    36 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 07/18/2025 - 3:12pm

  • Montgomery, Alabama, circa 1906. "Jefferson Davis residence, Bibb Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Montgomery

    Montgomery, Alabama, street scenes and cityscapes.

    12 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 05/09/2025 - 8:35am

  • Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1900. "Courthouse and Public Square." The "fourth courthouse," completed in 1857. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Nashville

    Nashville, Tennessee, street scenes and cityscapes.

    19 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 06/18/2025 - 4:16pm

  • New Orleans circa 1910. "Royal Street from the courthouse." Pedestrians will kindly resist any urges to leap into the shrubbery. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    New Orleans

    New Orleans, Louisiana, street scenes and cityscapes.

    157 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 07/16/2025 - 12:37pm

  • New Zealand circa 1900. "Cobb & Company stage, West Coast Road to Christchurch." Note the tonsured horses. 8x6 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    New Zealand

    Images from the National Library of New Zealand online digital archive.

    74 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 03/06/2025 - 6:22pm

  • Norfolk, Virginia, 1905. "Main Street and Market Square (i.e., Commercial Place)." At the crossroads of Painless Dentistry. At right, the Norfolk Confederate Monument two years before completion, minus its "Johnny Reb" statue. 8x10 inch glass transparency. View full size.

    Norfolk

    Norfolk, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    23 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 06/06/2025 - 10:14am

  • The Hudson River circa 1905. "Riverside Drive and Manhattan Valley Viaduct, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    NYC

    Landmarks in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and New York Harbor including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Singer Building, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, RCA Building ("30 Rock"), Rockefeller Center, Seagram Building, Woolworth Building, Metropolitan Life tower, Flatiron Building, Central Park, Union Square, Brooklyn Bridge, 59th Street Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan Bridge. Telling the story of the city from before the turn of the century through the 1940s, these New York photos can be purchased as fine-art prints.

    1388 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/17/2025 - 8:16am

  • April 9, 1953. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. "Civil Defense air raid drill, Highland View School." Photo by Ed Westcott for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. View full size.

    Oak Ridge

    Tennessee town where materials for the atomic bomb were manufactured in secret for the Manhattan Project during World War 2.

    4 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:24pm

  • November 1942. "Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Cot house." The California Dormitory, offering not just "clean cots," but checkers and dominoes. Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.

    OKC

    Oklahoma City photos.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/18/2024 - 1:39pm

  • Omaha, Nebraska, 1910. "Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Locomotive CBQ 2867." 4x5 inch glass negative, Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection. View full size.

    Omaha

    "Gateway to the West," the Big O is the largest city in Nebraska.

    46 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 12/17/2024 - 1:56pm

  • Pensacola, Florida, circa 1910. "Looking north on Palafox Street." Note the Pepsi-Cola streetcar stop. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Pensacola

    Pensacola, Florida, street scenes and cityscapes.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 05/02/2023 - 10:35pm

  • Circa 1906. "Suburban station at Petoskey, Michigan." A locomotive of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, with a car bearing the names of Little Traverse Bay and Crooked and Walloon Lakes. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Petoskey

    Petoskey, Michigan, bustling metropolis of the Lower Peninsula.

    10 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 06/05/2025 - 6:19pm

  • April 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sealing envelopes containing seed at the W. Atlee Burpee Company, seed dealers." Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel. View full size.

    Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, street scenes and cityscapes.

    124 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 06/02/2025 - 10:12am

  • June 1940. "The gasoline pumps at Pie Town, New Mexico." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    Pie Town

    40 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 12/08/2021 - 12:33pm

  • Pittsburgh circa 1910. "Schenley Park and vicinity. Panorama shows the University of Pittsburgh, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall, Carnegie Museum and Library, the Hotel Schenley, Forbes Field, Phipps Conservatory and Schenley Park. Also shown are the neighborhoods of Schenley Farms, Oakland, Shadyside, East Liberty and Squirrel Hill." At left, houses under construction on Parkman Avenue (the side of 4255 Parkman facing the camera). Composite of four 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

    Pittsburgh

    Landmarks include steel mills, the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, Mount Washington, Smithfield Street, Pan Handle Bridge, Point Bridge, Duquesne Incline and Wabash Station.

    121 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 01/25/2025 - 3:32pm

  • Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "City Hall and Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument." And behind the monument, a billboard bonanza advertising Moxie, Coca-Cola, shoes, gin, ale ... 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Providence

    Providence, Rhode Island, street scenes and cityscapes.

    24 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 04/17/2025 - 5:52pm

  • January 1942. "Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Burning a sugar cane field. This is a process that destroys the leaves and makes the sugar cane easier to harvest." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

    Puerto Rico

    Photos taken by Jack Delano in Puerto Rico in 1942 for the Office of War Information. He liked the island so much he ended up moving there.

    32 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 07/10/2021 - 11:51am

  • Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Main Street west from Eleventh." Merchants and products vying for our trade include O.H. Berry & Co. Outfitters, Southern Dental Rooms, David's Cough Syrup and Dixie Liniment. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

    Richmond

    Richmond, Virginia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    47 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 03/23/2025 - 2:26pm

  • Rochester, New York, circa 1908. "Masonic Temple, North Clinton Avenue and Mortimer Street." Our second visit to this august edifice affords a view of two lads whom we strongly suspect of being Up to Something. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

    Rochester

    Rochester, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    41 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:39am

  • Salem, Massachusetts, 1906. "Town House Square at Washington and Essex Streets." With beaucoup bollards. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Salem

    Salem, Massachusetts. Photos of historic structures including the Salem Witch House and House of Seven Gables.

    16 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 08/12/2025 - 12:09am

  • San Francisco circa 1930. "William Taylor Hotel, McAllister and Leavenworth streets." This 28-story agglomeration of Gothic Revival, Art Deco and Art Moderne styles housed a "superchurch" -- Temple Methodist Episcopal, and was named in honor of the street preacher who formed the city's first Methodist congregation. Gelatin silver print. View full size.

    San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, street scenes and cityscapes. Aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and fire.

    510 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 09/12/2023 - 12:21pm

  • Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1909. "The trolley station." Red-Hots only 5 cents! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Saratoga Springs

    The resort town of Saratoga Springs, New York, nexus of horse racing and mineral water.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 07/14/2025 - 8:48pm

  • Savannah, Georgia, circa 1901. "Down the Savannah River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Savannah

    Savannah, Georgia, street scenes and cityscapes.

    55 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sun, 03/23/2025 - 11:19pm

  • Circa 1900. "Nay Aug Tunnel, Scranton, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Scranton

    The rail hub of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

    9 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Mon, 12/17/2018 - 11:38am

  • January 1939. "Prostitute. Saint Louis, Missouri." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

    St. Louis

    St. Louis, Missouri, street scenes and cityscapes.

    38 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Wed, 04/23/2025 - 1:35pm

  • October 1941. "Deserted diner near Syracuse, New York." Serving "Best" ice cream, merely "Good" coffee and -- yum! -- "Regular" dinners. Acetate negative by John Collier. View full size.

    Syracuse

    Syracuse, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    28 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 09/29/2022 - 8:51pm

  • 1899. "Maumee River front, Toledo, Ohio." (Non-panoramic version here.) Detail of 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Toledo

    Toledo, Ohio, street scenes and cityscapes. Industrial facilities along the Maumee River.

    40 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Sat, 03/15/2025 - 5:47pm

  • Circa 1905. "Upper Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y." A scene framed by elms, hitching posts and streetcars. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Utica

    Utica, New York, street scenes and cityscapes.

    14 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Fri, 01/07/2022 - 11:21am

  • Vicksburg, Mississippi, circa 1901. "St. Paul's Catholic Church, Crawford and Walnut Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

    Vicksburg

    Vicksburg, Mississippi, street scenes and cityscapes.

    24 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Tue, 06/17/2025 - 9:36pm

  • Circa 1910. "St. Mary's Church and Ambery house ('Foxley'), Walkerville, Ontario." In the foreground, holders for the photographer's glass plates. "Foxley," designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn, was the residence of Clayton J. Ambery, an executive of the Hiram Walker distillery. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

    Walkerville

    Walkerville, Ontario, street scenes and cityscapes. Grounds and facilities of Hiram Walker & Sons, Distillers.

    13 photos in this gallery

    Last updated: Thu, 01/14/2021 - 12:36pm

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