Historical Transport Footage

Grainy images of early 20th-century transport, featuring cars, trains, and airplanes, depicting the era's transportation challenges.

Country road with car, c. 1910 - c. 1940 photograph glass automobile
Country road with car, c. 1910 - c. 1940 photograph glass automobile
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Airplane. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)
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Country road with car, c. 1910 - c. 1940 photograph glass automobile
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Sudan. Omdurman. Air view. Sunrise from plane on leaving Khartoum area. 1936, Sudan, Khartoum
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Silvia Esther FL 1604F and outboard boat in foreground, and inboard boat alongside off Northwest Beach Area Anguilla Island. Silvia Esther FL 1604F and outboard boat in foreground, and inboard boat alongside off Northwest Beach Area Anguilla Island.
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Woodvlot by Maroons on the Suriname River, 1913 - 1930 stereograph Woodvlot of Maroons on the Suriname River. It is sailing smoothly in the direction of Paramaribo. The Maroons lived on the raft for a few weeks. Suriname glass Suriname
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Passengers fled only minutes before this wrecked aircraft at Kowloon, near Hong Kong, became an inferno. Of the 14 people on board, only three were slightly injured. The plane skidded 400 yards after crash and burst into flames. January 2, 1953. (Photo by The Associated Press Ltd.).
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08/13/1917. A Railway Accident - the state of the Trains that Collided at the Castillejo station. Photo: Jaraiz.
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Elsevier photo collection. Series 020-0131 020-0189: visit Swedish king Netherlands 25-4 27-4-1955. April 1955
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment covenant for safe traffic. August 8, 1965
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Aerial shot, cityscape and airplane wheels; Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930); Italy; 1914 - 1929; Gelatin silver print; 11.8 x 15.5 cm (4 5,8 x 6 1,8 in.)
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Transparency - Night scene, R-100 at mooring tower, about 1930
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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
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Aerial shot, cityscape and airplane wheels. Fédèle Azari (Italian, 1895 - 1930)
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At the airports. .
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Germany. Bahndamm with trains
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