Historical Urban Transportation

Archival images depicting vintage transport methods like buses and trucks in urban settings, capturing moments from the early to mid-20th century.

Two mature men holding guns near a car

People on the road, Emil Mayer -, photographer

Vintage bus on street

Washington D.C. History - Car on Washington Street obeying stop and go traffic sign circa 1913.

Two mature men holding guns near a car

Shadows across South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Paul Vanderbilt, Farm Security Administration, 1938

Ruter car from Setesdalsbanen. Omnibus with wooden carrier.

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American Red Cross Workers taking a Camion load of Refugees with their Baggage from the Gare de l'Est to another Station, Paris, France, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, June 1918

Top View of Fire Truck. Original caption: Miscellaneous (top view of fire truck).. 1923 - 1955. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

The entry is unloaded at Central Station

Madrid, March 1921. The car in which Mr. Dato was riding, in which the marks of the bullets can be clearly seen.

Anefo photo collection. Second day visit King Hakon to Stavenisse, O.A. Visit Hakonstraat. August 13, 1954. Stavenisse, Zeeland

View of people on fire engine

Joseph McReynolds service station ca. between 1918 and 1928.

Pershing parade, Washington., D.C ca. between 1909 and 1940.

African American woman arriving in Washington, D.C. She has a new job as a clerk in the War Department. Ca. 1941-43. (BSLOC_2014_13_123)

Company including members of the Terlaak family in an open bus in Berlin, 1923 photograph Part of photo album of an unknown Dutch family with recordings of Suriname, Europe and the Dutch East Indies. Berlin photographic support gelatin silver print travelling; tourism. the family travelling, on holiday Berlin

1920s 1930s YELLOWAY-PIONEER INTERCITY BUS SERVICE MERGED WITH GREYHOUND 1929 UNDERGOING MOTOR INSPECTION CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA USA

CAMION DONDE MURIO CALVO SOTELO. Location: EXPOSICION DE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA. MADRID. CALVO SOTELO JOSE.

Ford Motor Company, Manhattan Ldy.Laundry trucks ca. between 1910 and 1935.

Cars on a busy city street ca. 1917-1919 .

The interior of the Eastern Central Railway (ÖCJ) Motorvagn 22, manufactured by AB Svenska Railway workshops.

New York City subway fire, Broadway and West 55th Street, New York City, photograph, January 6, 1915.

United States: 1936 A crowd of people admiring a new 1936 Studebaker Dictator.

Group of People Surrounding Auto Wreck, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1923

Companion in a tour car for the Cologne Cathedral. .

Group of People waiting for Street Car, Chicago, Illinois, USA, John Vachon for U.S. Farm Security Administration, July 1940

Washington D.C. History - Car on Washington Street obeying stop and go traffic sign circa 1913.

Goering at the airfield in Berlin Tempelhof - Milch, director of Deutsche Lufthansa. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Guests and Automobile in Front of Oceanside Hotel, Magnolia, Massachusetts, USA, circa 1905

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Chicago, Illinois: July 31, 1919 Passengers and workers resorting to riding in trucks put into serivice during the street car strike. This one ran to Madison and 52nd Avenue for 25 cents a ride.

Mailman Collecting Mail from Mailbox on Train, USA, circa 1921

Equipment (Trucks). 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Negative. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Hotel, Aberdeen South Dakota, USA, John Vachon, Farm Security Administration, November 1940

Vintage Photograph. Street Scene in Garment District of New York City.

Kowel: Departure from Excellence Hindenburg.

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Passengers embark at Washington D.C. area airport in the 1930s. LC-DIG-hec-14557

J. Finley Wilson , Automobiles, Floats Parades, Parades & processions, Wilson, J. Finley, 1881-1952. Jack Miller Collection

KNVB photo collection. Officials and players from the Dutch national team en route to Denmark.denemarken - The Netherlands (2-2), played on October 23, 1938 in the Idraetsparken in Copenhagen .. October 23, 1938. Denmark, Copenhagen

Precautions taken during Spanish Influenza Epidemic would not permit anyone to ride on Street Cars with wearing a Mask, 260,000 of these were made by Seattle Chapter of Red Cross, which consisted of 120 Workers in Three Days, Seattle, Washington, USA, American National Red Cross Photograph Collection, October 1918

New York, New York: August 7, 1919 Street car employees on strike against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit have tied up the transportation system with their protests. Here are people trying to board one of the few cars left in operation.

Vintage photograph. Mechanics working on Ford De Luxe at Shell gas station while customer waits with money

Avenue des Champs -Elysées in Paris by night, with cars in the foreground, 1930 - 1940 photograph Paris baryta paper gelatin silver print night. automobile. avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade Champs-Elysées

American car in the 1930s. A young Hollywood woman poses on the elegant new Packard car. 1930s

Anefo photo collection. Royal visit to Limburg, arrival at Vrijthof in Maastricht. April 24, 1950. Limburg, Maastricht

Vintage photograph. fifth avenue looking north

Photograph of Lord Earl Peel entering his car from the main entrance of King David Hotel, Jerusalem. Dated 1936

Image of leveling a newly paved part of the Rijksstraatweg between Amersfoort and Renswoude.

The Bowery, New York City, U.S.A. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1897. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), Elevated railroads, Street railroads, Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street ), Trolley cars

Film recording at Gisslarbo station.

Hitchhiker at City Limits, Waco, Texas, USA, Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration, November 1939

Semmes Motor Company J.W. Hurley truck ca. between 1910 and 1926.

Photograph Relating to Port Security.

Flood-war damage 1925, Middle East

A crowd in front of a tram, July 12, 1937, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Lantern slide of the American Interchange. Photograph of horse and coach arriving at the depot entrance in Montreal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Description: The Barbados buses are so crowded that the conductors have to collect fares through the windows even when the buses are travelling at speed. Location: Barbados Date: 1950-1959 caribbeanthroughalens

Welcome of the BahnMinister Freiherr von Forster in Kötschach after the inspection of the railway line Hermagor-Kötschach.

People travelling by cable car

Anefo photo collection. Fire aboard the English coastal pool Fish Rotterdam. March 3, 1960. Rotterdam, South Holland

London street traffic gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

London Underground, 1930s, London, by Eric Lee-Johnson.

Toll Booth At The Entrance To The Holland Tunnel In Jersey City, New Jersey. Original caption: J. K. Hillers. State: New Jersey. Place: Jersey City.

Anefo photo collection. Students Auto Ralley. 28 June 1952

Experimental model that has never been manufactured.

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