The United States 100 Years Ago

A collection of photographs showing what America looked like 100 years ago.

Woodward Avenue Detroit, Michigan 1917

The Jersey Shore, Atlantic City 1910

Memphis Main Street, North from Gayoso Avenue 1910

Louisville and Nashville Railway Station, Florida 1910

Forsyth Street, West from Main Jacksonville, Florida 1910

Bathing in Front of the Big Hotels, Atlantic City 1915

Sutter Street up from Grant Avenue After the Earthquake, San Francisco 1906

Thompson Dairy Wagons, Washington D.C., 1927

Washington D.C., 1914

Cadillac Square Detroit, Michigan 1916

Ninth Street, Washington D.C., 1915

Main Street from Eleventh, Richmond Virginia 1905

Avenue and 42. Street, New York 1910

Broad Street North from Spruce, Philadelphia 1905

Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn 1909

Subway Fire at West 55th Street, Broadway 1915

Fifth Avenue at 51st Street, New York 1913

Wabash Avenue, Chicago 1907

The New York Public Library, New York 1915

Wall Street 1911

Fifth Avenue Easter, New York 1913

Bridge of Sighs, Manhattan 1907

Fifth Avenue Looking North 1913

City Hall Post Office, New york 1905

Dexter Avenue and the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama 1906

Walnut Street Cincinnati, Ohio 1910

Woman suffrage-Hikers arriving in Washington from New York 1913

Broadway and Times Building, New York 1915

Government Square Cincinnati, Ohio 1905

Newspaper Row Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 1906

Jefferson Market Courthouse. Now a Library, New York City 1905

Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan, New York 1903

Traffic Safety in Washington with the Treasury Building 1913

Post Office and Eagle Building. Brooklyn, N.Y 1906