Early 20th Century Urban Traffic

Black and white images of early 20th-century city traffic featuring horse-drawn carriages, trams, and early automobiles in bustling urban settings.

1900s 1912 POLICEMAN AND TRAFFIC SEMAPHORE ON FIFTH AVENUE AND 48th STREET BEFORE WORLD WAR I MANHATTAN NEW YORK CITY USA

Traffic in Westbourne Grove, London, outside Whiteley's department store, c1910.

Budapest. Waitzner ring with tram

1900s 1912 POLICEMAN AND TRAFFIC SEMAPHORE ON FIFTH AVENUE AND 48th STREET BEFORE WORLD WAR I MANHATTAN NEW YORK CITY USA

King's Cross Reconstruction Work road, york, london, way, inn, transport, tube, tram, scala, londonunderground, euston, forties, tramlines, pentonville, grays

Berlin (Germany), 1910 (ca.). View of a central street in the German capital.

5th Ave. N.Y.C.

Moscow street scene shortly after the Revolution. Most of the traffic is horse-drawn. The Grand Hotel is on the left. Date: circa 1920

Freiberg. Wine street with tram

Street scene, Washington, D.C. ca. 1913-1918 .

By 1905 Tokyo was already a busy, developing city with a large population and heavy traffic including street trams.

Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the world's busiest shopping streets. Today's Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West. In some contexts, 'Nanjing Road' refers only to the pre-1945 Nanjing Road (pictured), today's Nanjing Road East, which is now largely pedestrianised. Prior to 1949, the road's English name was rendered Nanking Road, using the standard romanisation of the time.

Busy street scene in Washington D.C. ca. 1913-1918.

USA, New York City, Streets, 5th Ave, 42 St, Looking East, 1916

Traffic at Oxford Circus and Regent Street, London, England Date: C.1910

New York City's Sixth Avenue crowded with shoppers in 1903. Horse drawn carriages and wagons travel on the street level as an elevated train passes above. LC-D4-9145

Image of the coach with Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik on the Kromme Nieuwegracht in Utrecht during the driving tour through the city on the occasion of their visit; In the background the clothing store and tailoring J. de Gooijer Jr. (Kromme Nieuwegracht 90).

USA, New York City, Traffic At 5th Avenue And 42nd Street

View of a street is Wiesbaden with a tram, Anonymous, Römmler & Jonas, 1889 cabinet photograph. photomechanical print maker: Wiesbadenpublisher: Dresden paper. cardboard collotype railway, tramway; rack railway. street Wiesbaden

Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris with passers -by, horse -drawn carriages and a horse tram, x phot., C. 1880 - c. 1900 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Belgium and France. Paris paper. photographic support. cardboard albumen print street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). diligence, omnibus, horse-tram. four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach Boulevard de la Madeleine

Anefo photo collection. Opening States General, Arrival Ridderzaal. September 15, 1964. The Hague, South Holland

Photograph shows people, streetcar, automobiles and buildings at the corner of a Washington, D.C. street. ca. between 1909 and 1920.

Poll photo collection. Troon distance Queen Wilhelmina / Inauguration of Queen Juliana. Monday afternoon. Riding tour by Amsterdam with the Royal Family in the Golden Carriage. Departure from the procession from the palace on the Dam .. September 6, 1948. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Bustle in the city and at the tram. April 4, 1946. Amsterdam

Madrid, 1899. Simones, horse-drawn carriages, stopped next to the sidewalk.

1880s CABLE CAR DOWNTOWN ON BROADWAY LOOKING SOUTH FROM 2ND STREET PEDESTRIANS HORSES AND WAGONS LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA USA

1900S 1910S 1912 Detroit Street Scene Pedestrians & Streetcar

Alabama del. arriving in Balto.

Budapest. Rákoczi-Strasse with tram

High Street, Kensington, London, c1900 (1901). Artist: Unknown.

Engraving showing horse-drawn carriages travelling along Piccadilly, during the London 'Season', 1895. Date: 25 May 1895

View in the Potterstraat in Utrecht, from the Neude, with the demolition work on the left due to the widening of the street. In the middle the intersection of two electric trams (left motor car no. 5 of the N.B.M. to Zeist and right motor car no. 30 of the G.E.T.U.).

12/31/1929. The bustling Sarandí street, a kind of race of San Jeronimo Montevideana -.

Horse buses, carts and handcarts, pedestrians crossing the bridge : facing northwest Date: 1897

Shibe Park, Philadelphia (baseball)

Anefo photo collection. Excursion lack. Children's blockb. Taxis. July 8, 1952

Indianapolis Race, pedal car racing organized by students, February 25, 1951, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Fleet St., London

New York City Subway Fire, January 6, 1915

Historical Washington D.C. - 15th and Pennylsavnia. Ave., 4:30 rush hour circa 1930.

a lively street scene in central Dublin with a variety of horse-drawn transport and a donkey cart, delivering goods Date: 1890s

The funeral cortege at the entrance to Westminster Abbey, London. Date: 1898

Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - D.1924), universal exhibition of 1889: commercial car stopped in front of the Rapp gate, 7th arrondissement, Paris (dummy title), 1889. Platinum draw. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Jaarbeurs Time in Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Tram stops are made longer. 11 May 1951

'Cities of the Sunny South, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia', 1909. 'Collins Street from Russell Street looking west, a grand avenue'. Horse-drawn vehicles and trams on one of Melbourne's main thoroughfares, with the Town Hall and Prince Alfred's Tower on the right. One of a set of stereocard views by George Rose, boxed as "Studies through the Stereoscope", to be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909

Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - D.1924), a barrel car circulating in the middle of the Chaussée, boulevard Saint -Germain, 5th, 6th and 7th arrondissements, Paris (dummy title), 1890. Platinum draw. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

1890s PEDESTRIANS HORSE DRAWN WAGONS AND OMNIBUSES DOWNTOWN LOWER BROADWAY ACROSS FROM CITY HALL PARK LOOKING NORTH NYC USA

Smyrne - Grand Hôtel Huck , Hotels, City & town life, Carriages & coaches. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Tram on Brunn's street towards Söder, on the bridge over the railway in Aarhus.

Anefo photo collection. An hour strike i.v.m. Payroll (organized by 3 trade unions). Strikers hold traffic against Dam and Damrak; Steakers stop traffic. December 15, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Fire truck semi-centennial , Fire engines

Between rue de Rivoli and the boulevards / 361. Rue de Rohan. - Cl. 941. Bus on horseback, rue de Rohan, 1st arrondissement, Paris Bus on horseback, rue de Rohan, Paris (IER ARR.) ". Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924), around 1890.

From rue de Rivoli to Boulevards / 393. Street Vivienne, a business car. Cl. 973. Horse car, Vivienne Street, 2nd arrondissement, Paris Car on horseback, rue Vivienne, Paris (Ire Arr.) ". Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924), around 1890.

Black and white photo of trucks lining up outside the Military School in Paris during the mobilization of the French armed forces, September 1938.

Madrid, 02/15/1936. distribution of electoral propaganda from a Buick on Alcalá Street, with the Communications Palace in the background. They were the last Elections before the Civil War, won by the Popular Front.

Rue de Rivoli / 346. Rue de Rivoli, between Castiglione Street and Péné des Pyramids, / an Omnibus on the right. - Cl. 926. Cars on horseback and omnibus on Rivoli Street, between Castiglione Street and Péné des Pyramids, 1st arrondissement, Paris Cars on horseback and omnibus on rue Rivoli, between Castiglione Street and Péné des Pyramids, Paris (IER ARR.) ". Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924), around 1890.

Intrepid pedestrians take their lives in their hands as cars and horse-drawn vehicles bear down the Champs Elysees. Date: circa 1904

Anefo photo collection. Snoward Organ and coal shuffle Achtergracht. November 24, 1952

Anefo photo collection. Hoofddorpplein with radiographic traffic light. March 14, 1962

Paris c1900. Boulevard des Italiens with cars and motor buses. Tinted lithograph.

Four Gothenburg Tramways Aktiebolag, GS buses of the 1923 model on Gustav Adolfs Torg in Gothenburg.

Trams in Gdańsk, 1903, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Danzig, Blick durchs grüne Tor mit Straßenbahn

Cleaning snow from the streets in trucks, New York

Poll photo collection. Report Paris. Street scene at the Place de la Concorde with car and tram. 1935. France, Paris

Boulevards / 450. Bonne Nouvelle Boulevard, an Omnibus of the Vin- / Cennes railway from the side of the Bastille. Cl. 1029. Vincennes Railway Omnibus going from the Bastille side, Bonne-Nouvelle Boulevard, 2nd and 10th arrondissemen Vincennes Railway Omnibus from Bastille, Good New Boulevard, Paris (II-Xth Arr.) ". Photograph of Hippolyte Blancard (1843-1924), Around 1890.

Food Administration Parade Washington, D.C. ca. between 1910 and 1920.

1930s AUTOMOBILE HORSE-DRAWN WAGON AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC ON A RAINY DAY DOWNTOWN STREET IN PANAMA CITY PANAMA

London As USUAL- Everyday Life in London, England, 1940 Pedestrians and vehicles go about their daily business on Brompton Road, London. This photograph was taken looking towards Knightsbridge, with Harrods visible on the right. The stepped kerbs visible on the left of the photograph have been painted in sections in black and white to make them more visible to pedestrians in the blackout.

Washington D.C. street scene ca. 1935.

Early traffic congestion at Westminster Date: 1929

Trolley cars, Vienna, Austria. Austria, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection .

Traffic passing the Bank of England, London, c late 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Man posting a letter in a post collection box attached to a tram in Amsterdam; Netherlands 1925

Gothenburg telephone networks. 1900.

Expo 1906. Milan. Equestrian Circus At The Fair

Copenhagen. July 31, 1952. (Photo by Look Magazine).

Pupils at Eric Lundvik's driving school, gathered around automobiles on Karlaplan, about 1915-1920.

Mobilizing before Gare de Lyon, Paris

Massachusetts, 1953 , Civil defense, Trucks, Boston Public Library. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Image of a sleeping traveler in a train.

The Belmont Coach, New York City, America Date:

Italy. lombardia. milan. via orefici. 1915.

Tram-routes and bus-routes converge and diverge at the place de la Republique. Date: circa 1900

A street scene in Liverpool, including Horse buses. Date: 1890

A familiar sight in central London during the Season - a long line of cars snaking its way up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace. Inside are debutantes and other ladies who are to be presented at court, all of them coming under the scrutiny of the crowds who gather to watch. Date: 1930

Historic image of mail arriving at Post Office in Nome via dog sled December 16 1905 winter WE Alaska

Avenue des Champs-Elysées. Louis Parnard, photographer (French, 1840 - 1893) about 1889 View of the Champs-Elysées with the Arc d'Triomphe in the distance. A range of carts, wagons, and buggies are being driven down the street. (Verso) upper center, in pencil: "Les Champs Elysées/ pris de la Place de la Concorde/ vers 1889"; upper right, in pencil: "Gilles";

Moscow street scene shortly after the Revolution. Most of the traffic is horse-drawn. Date: circa 1920

07/10/1923. Barcelona. The Transport Strike. Engineers from the Tram Company Repairing the Cables, Guarded by the Civil Guard. (Branguli photo).

Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - D.1924), horseshoe car circulating on the roadway, two reinforcement horses on the right, boulevard Saint -Michel, 5th and 6th arrondissements, Paris (dummy title), 1890. Platinum draw. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Postplatz with tramsDresden. Postplatz with trams

The Strand as it was in the days of Hansom cabs and tall hats, London, (1935). Artist: Unknown

Image of a poster for London trains to various Dutch destinations via Harwich - Hoekvan Holland or Folkstone - Vlissingen.n.b. Given the signature at the bottom left, the poster is probably a design of French Mettes.

Madison Ave. & 70th St., Strike blockade

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria: the Royal carriage awaits in the quadrangle at Buckingham Palace. Date: 1897

Cabs and other horse-drawn vehicles. Date: 1895

New York Streetcar; Joseph Byron (American, born England, 1847 - 1923); New York, New York, United States; 1890s; Albumen silver print

USA, High angle view of carriages in town

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