Cities in the late 1800s, early 1900s

[tjh1]

Sprawl kills!!!

[Surrealplaces]

Those pictures are fanatstic!

[CityKid]

These photos are taken from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection. They are two panoramic shots of the Richmond District taken off of Geary and around 30th Ave.

The Richmond, 1916:

More info

The Richmond, 1983:

More info

[PhilippeMtl]

Some Montreal shots:
1863


1872


1884


1884



1890

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Exodus

That's really interesting. That light tower standing there looks identical to Austin's Moonlight Towers. Does Detroit still have those light towers? What were they called in Detroit? Any info about them around? I've never seen another light tower like them outside of Austin.

[j3shafer]

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[bigd]

Reno, NV:







1860



Here are some historic photos of Virginia City, which had around 30,000 people in the 1860s-1870s. It now has about 1500:

[JV_325i]

Those old Boston aerials make me want to cry. Holy shit.

[Canasian]

St John's Newfoundland.

All photos courtesy Geography Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland. All photos taken turn of the century or up to 1948. All pictures were taken pre-confederation, when Newfoundland was a Dominion under the British Crown, but also an an independent country.

Link to sight: http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/photos/#2.01 .


View of south side of Water Street and Sclater's Store, pre-1892


View looking west, Ayre and Sons to the left. Bus and parked cars
and horse drawn cart, c. 1948


1926, Water Street


New Gower Street, post 1892. That year a huge fire destroyed 1/3 of the city. Due to the enormous number of wooden pre firewall structures, many buildings were lost.


New Gower Street, west of Waldegrave Street, looking northeast, post-1892


View looking east, buildings, gas lamps, and chimney pots,
pre-1892


View from Roman Catholic Basilica towards the harbour, includes
the Congregational Church and Bee Orchid Cottages, c. 1905

Similar view today, taken be me in Nov. 2007


View looking up Garrison Hill from Queen's Road


View from the roof Newfoundland Hotel looking up Military
Road, includes streetcar tracks, c. 1925


View of eastern end of waterfront from railway track, includes
wharves, buildings and houses, pre-1892


View of the west end of harbour from the Southside - plus
enlargement


View of the west end of harbour, detailed area around the drydock


View of the Narrows and Lower Battery with a Red Cross liner


View of harbour and St. John's from Signal Hill, post-1925


Similar view taken be me in Dec, 2007


Sutherland Place, King's Bridge Road




Until 1948, Newfoundland drove on the left!

I found all these photos in the entire thread submitted by everyone fascinating! Hope you liked the photos. Luckily, a very large amount of heritage buildings still survive today, alas post 1892.

[Architype]

^Thanks for posting those of St. John's, MUN has a great collection.

http://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/cns/photos/geog100.php

One of the differences you can't see in the old photos is that pretty much all the houses used dark colours then, mostly red, green & gray; now brighter colours are used.

Here is a link to a site containing old postcards from St. John's, and many North American and other cities:

http://www.oldstratforduponavon.com/newfoundland.html

[SuburbanNation]

http://inlinethumb21.webshots.com/40...600x600Q85.jpg

somewhere between downtown and midtown st. louis, mill creek valley-all gone except for the train station at the hand of drunken bulldozers and thrilling modern ideas. just a couple square miles.


from St. Louis Lost by Mary Bartley


http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/900...yafter2zd4.jpg
from a post on urbanstlouis.com

cancer begins, you can see pruitt igoe in the upper left, downtown is beyond the top of the photograph.


http://homepage.mac.com/burkejm/iblo...96/Media/7.JPG


http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9010/deterioratedhousing2vp2.jpg
from urbanstlouis.com

night falls in st. louis.

the core of the crescent of mid 19th century tenements around downtown st. louis was destroyed in a year, the rest would soon fall, with the exception of its southern outskirts...soulard-


eric bowers

and northern outskirts, mullanphy/old north st. louis-

onsl.org

[Canasian]

^^^^Albany NY did that with Empire state Plaza. But instead of public housing, this was the State Gov't.

[sopdx]

More dammit, more!
These are all fantastic. Thanks everybody.

[jodelli]

Pictures here from the 1910s, 20s and 30s.
All pictures c.Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.
WSU Virtual Motor City Collection:
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...hotojournalism
Photographer credited when known.

Detroit around the end of WWI:


The Majestic Building, 1896
This D. H. Burnham building was the tallest for a little over ten years. It was torn down for a modern office building in the 60s.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...detroit-mi-usa


These next two are in my home town of Windsor Ontario, in and around the Detroit ferry landing. These happy Americans are in search of 4.4 Beer which was being introduced in May of 1925 in Ontario, nearly eight years before repeal in the States. Two years later all restrictions were lifted.
http://windsorstreetsmarts.com/theti...nabrewery3.htm


Just around the corner, and to the right...


Ford plant and Hiram Walker distillery side by side on the Walkerville and Ford City waterfront, 1930s.
The distillery was up and running again after WWI prohibition of non-essential goods, and was allowed to continue to export whiskey out of Ontario. Guess where most of it went.

Also:
Walkerville, Ontario


Downtown Windsor, 1930's

photo: Walker

And Detroit. The tunnel is under construction but the Guardian Building appears to be topped out so this would have to be 1929 or 1930.

photo: Kuenzel


photo: Walker

Pontiac

photo: Walker

Flint

photo: Walker

Ann Arbor

photo: Don Walker

Grand Rapids

photo: Walker

Here's a few other cities. You'll figure them out.

photo: Kuenzel


photo: Kuenzel


photo: Piersol


photo: Piersol


photo: Piersol

[sprtsluvr8]

Atlanta Skyline, 1940

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N01-28_a.jpg



Georgia Tech vs University of Georgia, Midtown Atlanta, 1945

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N01-87_a.jpg



Atlanta Skyline, 1948

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...BGPF6-058d.jpg



Marietta St at Forsyth St, 1951

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N03-54_a.jpg



Crew Removing Streetcar Rails on Forsyth St, 1951

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N03-98_d.jpg



Alabama St/Rich's Department Store, 1953

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N04-02_a.jpg



Peachtree St at Ponce de Leon Ave, 1956

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N05-30_c.jpg



Luckie St at Forsyth St, 1956

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...g/N05-79_a.jpg



Downtown Atlanta, 1906

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/sp...BGPF7-018a.jpg

[JManc]

just think how american cities would have turned out had the street cars never been ripped up and replaced by buses and highways.

[holladay]

^ Our country might actually be cultured.

[sprtsluvr8]

Atlanta City Hall, 1920

http://msit.gsu.edu/dhr/pullen/image..._city_hall.jpg


Five Points, Downtown Atlanta, 1928

http://msit.gsu.edu/dhr/pullen/image...nts/1928-6.jpg


Taking cotton to market on Peachtree Street, Downtown Atlanta, 1870

http://msit.gsu.edu/dhr/pullen/image...nts/cotton.jpg


Peachtree Street, Downtown Atlanta, 1890

http://msit.gsu.edu/dhr/pullen/image...0_postcard.jpg


Union Station, Downtown Atlanta, 1890

http://msit.gsu.edu/dhr/pullen/image...n_station2.jpg

[binjakob]

Stockholm City Museum (Stockholm Stadsmuseum) owns copyright to many of the images posted in this forum. The original images and descriptive metadata
can be found at Stockholmskällan <http://www.stockholmskallan.se>, along with rights and licensing information


Can add a few from Stockholm. Just to make this great thread come to life again.






Hotel Anglais, Stureplan. 1900.





Stureplan 3 during the celebrations of king Oscar II:s 75th birthday 1904.






Slussen and Gamla Stan (old town) seen from Södermalm. Around 1900.






Markvardsgatan 1896.






Lutternsgatan seen from Biblioteksgatan. 1896.






Lutternsgatan around 1900.

[Reverberation]

Houston 1921:


Houston 1924:


http://www.hellohouston.com/photos_panoramic.cfm

Houston 1890:


http://houstonhistorymagazine.org/20...rm-to-counter/