Historic Travel Photography

Black-and-white historic photos featuring landscapes and pastoral scenes, capturing the essence of travel through mountainous and rural regions.

Horse-and-tuns in a mountainous area, Italy, Anonymous, 1914-1918 photograph Italy baryta paper gelatin silver print mountains. four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach. fugitives 'en route' Italy

Horse-and-tuns in a mountainous area, Italy, Anonymous, 1914-1918 photograph Italy baryta paper gelatin silver print mountains. four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach. fugitives 'en route' Italy

Country road with children and oxen cart, in the background a village, presumably in Spanish Basque Country. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

View of Mittenwald with the Karwendel Mountains in the background. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Mount Taurus from Stony Point. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)

Vacation in Switzerland. Holidays in Vitznau, Switzerland. Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijm family in Suriname and Curaçao.

View of Calvi. Part of a French amateur photographer photo album with sights in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Mountain climbers at Berghut Le Chapeau in the Alps. Part of travel album with sights in the Swiss Alps.

Manitou. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Manitou Springs (Colo.)

Sorrento; 2122 Sorrento. City panorama along the coast of the town of Sorrento located on the Amalfical coast with a mountain landscape on the eight region.

View of Amalfi with mountains, harbor and houses, c. 1860 - c. 1900 photograph Part of photo album with sights in Naples and surroundings by Roberto Rive. Amalfi paper. photographic support albumen print prospect of village, silhouette of village. harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.). mountains (in tropical and sub-tropical regions) Amalfi

Χωριον Μπενίτσαι - Κέρκυρα - Village Benitsai - Corfou , Villages, Seas, Mountains. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Two women on a rock with a view over a village on Capri, Anonymous, c. 1865 - c. 1875 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Naples and the surrounding area. Capri, island of paper. photographic support albumen print prospect of village, silhouette of village Capri, island of

A summer camp on the road to Damavand - a city in Tehran Province in Iran. This scene could be a gathering to celebrate the opening of a new road through the mountains to Damavand. Date: circa 1904

Students from Schule Schloss Salem during a ski tour in Uterengadin, presumably at Schloss Tarasp. Part of photo album from Schule Schloss Salem.

Photo production of a painting by I.n. Zankovsky, representing the Mount Ararat; Ararat, Kopia S Kart. Zankowskago. Part of photo album with recordings of sights in Georgia, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

View of the port of Padang. Part of the green photo album with pictures of Java, from the possession of pharmacist Woodpecker-Grab, returning to the Netherlands from Batavia in 1865.

Company with a loaded donkey in Gattières, 1903 photograph Part of photo album of a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first cars and car races. Gattières paper. photographic support ass, donkey Gattières

View of the Altausseer See in the Salzkammergut with boats, houses and surrounding mountains, anonymous, c. 1880 - in or before 1899 photograph Part of travel album with sights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium. Salzkammergut paper. photographic support lake. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. poling, punting. mountains (+ landscape with figures, staffage). prospect of village, silhouette of village Salzkammergut

Group of people for (presumably) a hotel in Schwarzenbach in Switzerland. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Switzerland.

View of Sölden with the brunnenkogel mountain top; Sölden mit brunnenkogel. Photo belongs to a series of 28 loose postcards from England, Norway, Italy, Germany and Tyrol (photos RP-F-F00945-1 to RP-F-F00945-28).

Vacation in Switzerland. Switzerland holiday at the Vierwoudmarksmeer (Vierwaldstättersee). Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijm family in Suriname and Curaçao.

View, Georgetown, Colo. still image. Postcards. 1902 - 1903. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Georgetown (Colo.)

Location: Gibraltar Camp, Jamaica Date: 1940-1941 jamaica, caribbean, gibraltarcamp, caribbeanthroughalens

Group of American tourists in their cars in the Alps, 1921 photograph France (Possible) Printer: North and Central America (Possible) baryta paper gelatin silver print tourism. mountain-range, snow peaks. automobile Alps

Description: Native Town on slope of Mount Ado. Description: View Town at foot of Mount Ado and distant Country. africa

Bisbee, Arizona 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Arizona , Bisbee, Arizona , Cochise County

Manitou, Colorado. Pike's Peak in the distance, 14,336 feet high. Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain views, scenes on the line of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway. 93. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Manitou Springs (Colo.)

Montreux and Chillon, Switzerland - by Lake Geneva Date: circa 1920s

Figures on a sampan. John Thomson (Scottish, 1837 - 1921)

The hot baths, at Idaho Springs. Stereoscopic views on line of Colorado Central Railroad. 235. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Idaho Springs (Colo.)

'General view taken from Pezou, Cannes', 1930. Creator: Unknown.

Lichtowitz. Looking for the Elbe with steamer

View of rock formations in Le Puy-en-Velay with a horse cart in the foreground. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

Historical postcard around 1900, Barbarossa cave, in Kyffhäuser near Rottleben, Thuringia, Germany, digital reproduction of a historical postcard, public domain, from that time, exact date unknown

Viewpoint Tonalestraße: Cable Car to Malga Strino. .

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Its Baths and Hotel Colorado still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Charles Brodie Sewell's Travel Journal

View of Toledo. Part of travel album with recordings of artworks, people and sights in Spain.

View of Hallstatt with lake and surrounding mountains; Hallstatt. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Germany and Austria and of artworks.

Signs - Utah. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Vista de Minca, en la Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, Col. - View of Minca, in the Sierra Nevada , Mountains, Villages, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Liberty Cap and Hotel. Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853 - 1921)

View of Berchtesgaden with in the foreground a man on a path, anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1890 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany. Berchtesgaden paper. photographic support albumen print prospect of village, silhouette of village. travelling; tourism Berchtesgaden

Vista de Minca, en la Sierra Nevada, Santa Marta, Col. - View of Minca, in the Sierra Nevada , Mountains, Villages, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Man in a rowing boat on the Hintersee at Berchtesgaden. Part of travel album with sights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Skaguay (Skagway), Alaska, USA Date: circa 1902

Pallanza on Lake Maggiore, Italy Date: circa 1910s

View over the Elbe with steamer AustriaPraskowitz. View over the Elbe with steamer Austria

, Neuwaldegg - Rohrerhütte, postcard, Charles Scolik -, photographer, publisher

El Illimani. A los pies de hermoso monte se extiende la ciudad. La Paz, Bolivia, S. A. - The mount Illimani. At its feet the city spreads its colorful quarters , Mountains, Cities & towns, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Village throne seen from Ballast Bank with cows grazing in the foreground; Throne from Ballast Bank .. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in England and France.

1950. Aran Valley. View of the town of Gausach from the national tourist stop in Viella.

Brighton by the Sea, New Zealand photographic postcards

Palestine & 'Israel' subjects of 1953. Betanya, Dagania & Semach showing S. end of Sea of Galilee, 1953. 1953, Israel

Restaurants in Austria, 1904 postcards, Innsbruck, 1904, Gramartboden Bei Innsbruck, Alpengasthaus Frauhitt

Italy - Sardinia - Bosa - The city and the river ..

Companion with a car at a spring in Bernkastel. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

The Hollywood Dam, Hollywood, Calif. , Dams, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Pikes Peak Avenue from Colorado Springs, Colorado. still image. Postcards. 1900 - 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Mountains, Streets, Pikes Peak (Colo.)

th, Kahlenberg and Leopoldsberg, in the foreground railway tracks, postcard, Brothers Kohn KG B, producer

Villa Melzi at Lake Como with a boat with a tilt in the foreground; Villa Melzi - Como. Part of travel album with photos of Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany.

Georgetown from Leavenworth, Colorado. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado, Georgetown (Colo.)

Salt Lake City, Utah. Photographic views, by J.J. Reilly and J.P. Spooner. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Utah, Salt Lake City (Utah)

Nakanochaya on the way to Nikko; (Nakanochaya) on the way of (Chuzenjii) nikko .. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Japan.

Postcard - King & Queen Inspecting Craig-Goch Dam, Elan Valley, Rhayader, Wales, 1904. Topographical Views - Kesterton Collection. King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra perform the opening ceremony for the waterworks supplying the city of Birmingham with fresh water, shown walking on the dam to the reservoir.

On the route between Ankarsrum and Totebo.

Chudoba (Chudobin) - Poland, close to the border with Czechoslovakia Date: 1902

Levuka, Fiji, Fiji, maker unknown.

From Album: Foreign trip 1890. Unknown city. Reproduction of painting.

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Small caravan stands by the banks of the Nile with the pyramids of Gizh, c. 1890 - c. 1910 photograph NetherlandsEgypte paper. cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print

Holiday in Switzerland, Andries Augustus Boom, 1899 photograph Holiday in Switzerland. Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijp family in Suriname and Curaçao. Switzerland photographic support Switzerland

Chautauqua Grounds, Boulder, Colo. still image. Postcards. 1902 - 1903. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Boulder (Colo.), Chautauquas , Colorado , Boulder (Colo.)

Morzine, Savoie, France Date: 1920s

Unpacking European goods in Jakobshavn, Greenland, Denmark. An Excursion to Greenland, Jakobshavn Glacier 1888 by Charles Rabot (1856 - 1944)

'Cliff Road, Shanklin, I.W.', c1920. Creator: Unknown.

, Panorama of Sievering, postcard, Brothers Kohn KG B, producer

Giant Rock, Great Gorge Route, Niagara Falls, N.Y. still image. Postcards. 1908 - 1909. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Street-railroads , New York (State) , New York, Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Rocks , New York (State)

Get rid of a cart at pyramid in Egypt, LL, c. 1900 - In or Before 1910 photomechanical print Part of photo album of a trip through Southern Europe and the Middle East. Egypt paper collotype forest path or lane. pyramid (historical grave form) Egypt

Funicular Cog Railway from Funchal to Monte on Madeira Island, Portugal which operated between 1893 and 1943, and went further up to Terreiro da Luta at 867 m above sea level. View down toward Funchal. Date: circa 1910

On the hiking road in the Hochwald "- turn trip.,

Rio de Janeiro: Corcovado, Botafogo, Pío de Acucar , Cities & towns, Mountains, Bays Bodies of water, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Camp of the Beni Ramases People at Constantine, Algeria Date: circa 1910s

Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA Date: circa 1910s

Denver, Colorado. still image. Postcards. 1900 - 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Cities & towns, Denver (Colo.), Buildings

Fuji from Kawaibashi.. Postcards. 1907 - 1918. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Fuji, Mount (Japan), Mountains, Bridges,Japan, Pedestrian bridges

Sinaia - Romania - The New Market area. A mountain resort in Prahova County, the town was named after the Sinaia Monastery (itself named after the Biblical Mount Sinai and pictured here), around which it was built. King Carol I's summer Palace, Peles Castle, is close to the town. Date: circa 1907

Naples and Mount Vesuvius, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company 1889 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "Magic Changing Cards" series (N223), issued in a set of 50 in 1889 by Kinney Tobacco Company. When held up to the light, a hidden image is revealed on each card.. Naples and Mount Vesuvius, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company. 1889. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

View over the Elbe with steamer AustriaSebusin. View over the Elbe with steamer Austria

The Stage Road, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. still image. Postcards. 1900 - 1902. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Carriages & coaches , California , Santa Catalina Island (Calif.), Santa Catalina Island (Calif.), Roads , California

Cave Grill, Mt. Washington Hotel, White Mtns., N. H. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Interiors, Eating & drinking, New Hampshire

Merok. Tourists and the crew member of a cruise ship posing on the wayside above the fjord with steamer Victoria Luise

Capri, Italy - Castello Barbarossa Date: circa 1910s

Arrival in Skutari. .

Happy Valley, Llandudno, Wales, circa 1900

The principal street of the Gold Bottom, the Klondike, Alaska 1905

Hutchings Hotel, Yosemite Valley, California , Hotels, Mountains, Horseback riding, Rivers, Horses. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Pyramids in Egypt with an oasis, ll, c. 1900 - In or Before 1910 photomechanical print Part of photo album of a trip through Southern Europe and the Middle East. Egypt paper collotype pyramid (historical grave form). oasis Egypt

Clyde Terrace and Molyneux River, Kaitangata photographic postcards

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