Historic Transportation Scenes

A collection of early 20th-century transportation moments, featuring trains, electric cars, bustling city life, and the start of a famous auto race. The images evoke nostalgia.

Kaiser Karl climbs the train to Vienna. .

Palestine delegation of Arab women at the railroad station leaving Lydda Junction for Cairo, Oct 12 1938.

Face in the Biltstraat in Utrecht at Fort De Bilt where a crowd flows to welcome the Allies during their entry.n.b. In 1954 the street name of this part of the Biltstraat, between Berekuil and the Offerhausweg, was changed to Biltsestraatweg.

Berlin has suffered tremendous damage from the latest and longest R.A.F. raid...The picture above shows how the East-West Highway leads into the city, and provides a perfect guide for raiding British planes. October 2, 1940. (Photo by Orbis Photo).

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Wet Street Scene from Above. Paul Wolff, photographer (German, 1887 - 1951) about 1935

Disturbance 1938. Searching an Arab bus for arms on the Jerusalem-Jaffa Rd. 1938, Israel

Elsevier photo collection. Car Akkrum hit train Heerenveen. February 1928. Akkrum

Elsevier photo collection. electrification North-South Hollandsche tram, Hillegom Oegstgeest quickly. November 1932. Hillegom, Oegstgeest

Arrival of the Negus to Haifa. crowds along road (in Haifa or Jerusalem) waiting for the family of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I who arrived at Haifa on the British ship, the H.M.S. Enterprise, May 8, 1936. 1936, Israel

Here we see Carl Nordgren's old car. Compare picture no EB 618.The site is Visby. The mill in the background is the high that burned down on the Lucian night in 1976. Här ser vi Carl Nordgrens gamla bil. Jämför bild nr EB 618.Platsen är Visby. Kvarnen i bakgrunden Är Högan som brann ned på lucianatten 1976.

12/31/1933. Mr. de la doe presents his autogyro to a large audience.

Rome, Italy may 1964: Young man cycling on a vintage bicycle on a paved road, possibly in the 1960s or 1970s

New York City, start of toy yacht race in Central Park, circa 1910s.

Transportion of nitrates, May 11, 1946, Genoa port, Italy, 20th century.

Adolf Hitler German Chancellor arrives by plane at an airfield. Circa 1933-37

Parade, Group of Persons and Cars. 1931 - 1945. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Turtle Mountain Agency. 7/1/1910-9/17/1947. Photographs

09/30/1919. Saint Sebastian. In La Concha Bay. HM Queen Cristina (1), in the trawler of the popular patron Quirico (2), walking through La Concha.

Elsevier photo collection. Series: students unloading bicycles rail wagon. August 1951. Utrecht

The last truckload of cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Cotton Plantation in Arkansas, 43 miles distant, June 1937.. 1937. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Arkansas, Roads, Trucks, Houses, Cotton Pickers , United States, African Americans , Tennessee, African Americans , Employment, Cotton plantation workers, Migrant laborers

El-Azrak & Wadi Sirhan in the Arabian Desert. Druze political refugees from Jebel Druze (The Hauran). The trackless desert. Car on the way from Amman to el-Azrak. 1926, Jordan

Side of BucyrusErie Equipment. 1900 - 1960. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Rosebud Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Shared car.

1940s transportation. An elderly man working as a delivery man with groceries on his bicycle to be delivered to clients from the company Arvid Nordquist. Sweden 1940s. Photo Kristoffersson A125-1

Departure signal Nylanda text on the back is Nylanda is uncertain that it is Nylanda.

Heart of a cable car tunnel on tonal. .

Ford Motor Company new Ford body U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., in background. ca. between 1910 and 1920.

Only London has such fogs. Lloyds Insurance Agency, London, have taken big bets, 3 to 1, that this year London is to see its first real sunshine. Picture is a good fog scene on the embankment.

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U.S. Frigate Constitution, Boston Navy Yard , Sailing ships, Tourists, Constitution Frigate. Leon Abdalian Collection

Sal M. SJ residential building; Railway Museum.

Pedestrians walking at Third Avenue and 14th Street, Elevated Subway at Right, New York City, New York, USA, Angelo Rizzuto, Anthony Angel Collection, early 1950's

At the train accident in Väsby.

Bound for the Ferry after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Disaster of April 18, 1906. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1906. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, San Francisco (Calif.), Earthquakes , California, San Francisco Earthquake, Calif., 1906

Mahatma Gandhi arriving at a wayside railway station, 1929 Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox www.dinodia.com

Caged-in Jerusalem bus 1938, Israel

Adriatic sea fishing. Fish indoor traffic. .

Ekj, Ängelholm - Klippan Railway

Ab vaporackumulator. Ruths.

Photograph of milk churns being delivered to Hyde Park during The Great Strike of Hyde Park. Dated 1926

Kobe. Tourist in Riksha with native driver against the harbor with luxury steamers and boats

KNVB photo collection. Players and officials from the Dutch national team on the road to Budapest. Hungary - The Netherlands (6-2), played on 8 June 1930 in the Ferencvaros TC stadium in Budapest .. June 8, 1930. Budapest

Off To Meeting -- Tramway employees leaving Waverley Depot today to march to Central Station to board a train for Petersham on their way to the mass meeting at Leichhardt Stadium. March 24, 1945.

Local people boarding a train in Czechslovakia. Artist: CM Dixon Artist: Unknown

Ciclista disfrazado circulando por la Diagonal de Barcelona, cruce con Paseo de Gracia, años 30.

Bound for the ferry after the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire disaster of April 18, 1906 , Disaster victims, San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

The Archbishop of Paris blessing two aeroplanes at the Part-Aviation Airfield, France, photo from L'Illustration, No 3450, April 10, 1909.

Paris (1st arr.), France sausage and mount of a zeppelin in the garden of the Tuileries , (French - Paris ( Ier arr. ) , France Saucisse et monture d' un zeppelin au jardin des Tuileries). Exchange , shoring, trophy, exists in high definition, air transport, rear, airship, park , garden, HD, transport, First World War, Habitat , Architecture, France, Paris, Garden of Tuileries sausage and frame of a Zeppelin

Elsevier photo collection. Leidens relieved. Boat carpedies. October 3, 1924. Leiden, South Holland

Man On Motorcycle

Platform with train of Bermuda Railway

Elsevier photo collection. Wood transport horse carriage mid-after Steeg Ellecom. 1924. De Steeg, Ellecom

Traveling Preacher's Cart, Belle Glade Florida, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, January 1939

Main St. Andover , Floods, Houses, Rowboats, Streets. Lawrence

Main St. Andover , Floods, Houses, Rowboats, Streets. Lawrence

Man sitting on Chair near Wagon with Water Tank in back to provide horses with free water by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Sign on trailer reads "Free water for horses, A.S.P.C.A.", New York City, New York, USA, Angelo Rizzuto, Anthony Angel Collection, July 1952

Lenin's Arrival at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. Found in the Collection of State Museum of Revolution, Moscow.

Departure of a Stagecoach from St. Petersburg Station by Premazzi, Ludwig (Luigi) (1814-1891) State History Museum, Moscow 1848 Watercolour and ink on paper Italy Academic art Genre Painting

Photograph of Four turbanned natives pushing Pangborn in hand-car in Bolan Pass, photographed by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942). Dated 1847

1930s VIEW FROM A FERRY FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO OAKLAND OF THE OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE CALIFORNIA USA - q37264 CPC001 HARS SCENIC MALES TRANSPORTATION B&W FRANCISCO SMOG HEAD AND SHOULDERS ADVENTURE COMMUTERS CA TOURISTS WEST COAST CITIES FERRY OAKLAND STYLISH FERRIES OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE SAN FRANCISCO TRANSIT BLACK AND WHITE CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY OLD FASHIONED SUSPENSION BRIDGE

Early motorists purchase gasoline for their auttomobiles at a livery stable before 1912.

Lenin's Arrival at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917, Sokolov, Mikhail Georgiyevich (1875-1953)

Vintage Photograph. Pacemaker Freight Service Box Car unloading. NYC.

Poster, 'War traffic comes first', Early 1940s, London, by J. Weiner Ltd, H.M. Stationery Office. Gift of Mr C H Andrews, 1967.

Agitation carriage of the Krasny Tkach factory at a demonstration in Leningrad on May 1.

GAS SHORTAGE- A gas station in Pennsylvania during the oil crisis. 1/14/74

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