What a few American cities looked like 100 years ago (34 Photos)

OK, so the shots aren’t all exactly a hundred years old but they’re all in the ballpark.

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View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn, 1909

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Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 1917

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Atlantic City, 1910

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

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Station “Louisville-Nashville”, Florida, 1910

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Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, Florida, 1910

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Beach in Atlantic City, 1915

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Grant Avenue after an earthquake in San Francisco, 1906

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Carts for transporting dairy Thompson, Washington, 1927

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Washington, 1914

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Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan, 1916

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Ninth Street, Washington, 1915

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The main street of Richmond, Virginia, 1905

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

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Broad Street north of Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1905

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Fire at 55th Street, New York, 1915

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Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913

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Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907

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The New York Public Library, New York, 1915

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Wall Street, New York, 1911

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Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913

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Manhattan, 1907

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The northern part of Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913

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City Hall – City Hall in New York.

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Dexter Avenue and the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, 1906

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Valnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1910

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Washington, 1913

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

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Size of Government in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1905

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Boston, MA, 1906

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New York, 1905

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Grand Central Station and Hotel, Manhattan, New York, 1903

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Treasury Building, Washington, DC, 1913

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Post Office, Brooklyn, New York, 1906