Vintage American Streetscapes

Black-and-white images depicting mid-20th century American streets, featuring shops, vehicles, and historic buildings.

Vintage photograph. Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island

Post Office Square - Sharon, MA , Historic buildings. Sharon Public Library Photo Collection

Corner of Lowell and Hampshire Streets , Buildings, Automobiles, Streets. Lawrence

Main street. Tonopah, Nevada 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vintage photograph. Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island

First National Bank corner. Norton, Kansas 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Kansas , Norton, Kansas , Norton County

Main street, Walla Walla, Washington. Walla Walla is county seat of rich wheat producing county 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Washington (State) , Walla Walla, Washington (State) , Walla Walla County

Corner Broadway & Common St. , Buildings, Automobiles, Stores & shops. Lawrence

W. H. 'Wheeler' 229 Broadway store , Buildings, Stores & shops. Lawrence

Corner of Lowell & Franklin St. , Buildings. Lawrence

Old State House , Cities & towns, Streets, Automobiles, Historic buildings, Capitols, Old State House Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Charles Street , Commercial streets, City & town life. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Snowstorm, Parkersburg, West Virginia 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

419-21 Essex St. , Buildings. Lawrence

Parking Garage at 13th Street Between G and H Streets, NW, Washington, DC. Original caption: Parking garage at 13th Street between "G" and "H" Streets, Northwest - Washington, D.C. 12:30 p.m. H. H. Ritter - September 28, 1943. State: District of Columbia. Place: Washington, DC.

Essex Street , Architecture, Buildings, Streets. Samuel Chamberlain Photograph Negatives Collection

The buildings of the Occupational Medicine Service of the Rijkswerf (RW) in Den Helder in the early 1980s.

Laboratory buildings area , Armories, Laboratories, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational

Chain stores on main street of La Junta, Colorado 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Colorado , La Junta, Colorado , Otero County

Elliott's/fire station , Industrial facilities, Fire stations, Streets, Boston Wharf Company Collection

Nichols Avenue and U St., S.E., Washington, D.C. ca. between 1910 and 1920.

Service drives and truck terminal on Ogden Avenue. Original caption: Service drives and truck terminal on Ogden Ave. Photo by T. W. Kines. July 26, 1948. State: Illinois. Place: Chicago.

T Wharf , Buildings, Piers & wharves. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

1930s 1940s STREET SCENE LOOKING EAST FROM WILCOX DOWN HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD HOLLYWOOD LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA USA

Old Long Wharf , Piers & wharves, Waterfronts, Warehouses. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Dolls Hospital and Repairs, Molesworth Street, Wellington, January 1953, Wellington, by J.W. Chapman-Taylor.

Lazio Roma Zagarolo Piazza G. Marconi. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, and sculpture (16th century) German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Harford Road, Baltimore. Original caption: Harford Road, Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by T. W. Kines, May 1948. State: Maryland. Place: Baltimore.

Concord St. between Hampshire and Franklin , Buildings, Automobiles, Dwellings. Lawrence

Torggatan in Arvika.

Hecht Company Customers' Parking Garage at 6th and "E" Street NW, Washington, DC. State: District of Columbia. Place: Washington, DC.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Office of the Pan American World Airways in the Spanbroek district of Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Near 2946A Wash. St. , Mass transit, Elevated railroads, Streets. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Downtown cityscape, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, January 1942

Georgetown Law at 506 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. ca. between 1910 and 1925.

United Food Stores in Washington D.C. at the corner of S.E. A Street and S.E. 6th Street ca. 1910 to 1935.

View down Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts , Cities & towns. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Anefo photo collection. Cafe Restaurant Moderne in Amsterdam closed, renewed. May 22, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Demolition Kattenburg on Cat Burgerplein is being demolished and built on background. Marine-establisement. October 24, 1968. Amsterdam

Vintage Photograph. Houston Texas Street Scene.

Vintage Photograph. Bermuda.

Hecht Company Adjoining Parking Garage, Arlington, Virginia. Original caption: View of The Hecht Company store with adjoining parking garage in Arlington, Virginia. Photo by C. H. Ritter. July 1954. State: Virginia. Place: Arlington.

Quincy Market, site of weekend open air market , Markets, Building construction, Restaurants, Quincy's Market Boston, Mass., Durgin-Park Restaurant. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Welton Street, Denver , Cities & towns, Streets. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Town House Motor Hotel, downtown on U. S. 50, 85 and 87, 8th and Santa Fe Avenue, Pueblo, Colorado 81003 , Motels, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Vintage Photograph. Third avenue.

Abandoned store, Cambria, Illinois, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, January 1939

Laconia, New Hampshire: street scene Date: circa 1940s

Anefo photo collection. Reformed pedagogical Academy in Amsterdam occupied; Exterior with banners. April 5, 1976. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue. Frame 3

Anefo photo collection. Renovation activities Rembrandtplein, the facade of the passage is dyed. November 18, 1968. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vintage Photograph. The main street of Middlebury Vermont.

Pueblo Colorado Main Street and business section looking north , Cities & towns, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Alabama - Birmingham, Aerial Photograph.

USA, New York City, 8th Street, tenements

Washington DC, Pennsylvania Avenue

Charles Street , Residential streets, Row houses. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

View (Panorama Business Section), New Orleans, La. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Orleans (La.), Business districts , Louisiana , New Orleans

Vintage photograph. 1940s city street with street car tracks and cars. Church with Steeple, Stone municipal buildings

Metro bridge of Sevres Access to the Metro Bridge Station of S�vres. Boulogne-Billancourt, January 26, 1934.

USA, New York City, Times Square at night

USA, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Traffic on road in city

Hermes Schuhpalast, th, Mariahilferstraße architect Leopold Liebl, Martin Gerlach jun, Photographer, Leopold Liebl -, artist

Memorial fountain in square, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania , Monuments & memorials, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Exterior, window display on Royal Visitors. Photographs. New York Public Library Archives. New York Public Library

1970s America - Elwood Bar, Detroit, Michigan 1978.

Old State House , Cities & towns, Streets, Automobiles, Historic buildings, Capitols, Old State House Boston, Mass.. Leon Abdalian Collection

Fish houses, Atlantic Avenue , Cities & towns, Streets. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Views of Cambridge gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Post Office Square, Boston Federal Reserve Bank , Banks, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

From Williamsburg Bridge by Edward Hopper, Oil on canvas, 1928, 1882-1967, USA, New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Merrimack Street, south, Haverhill, Mass. , Cities & towns, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Salem, Town House Square and Neal and Newhall Building, views , Cities & towns, Plazas, Buildings, Stores & shops. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Street scene, with building of the Southington News, Southington, Connecticut - May 1942.

Vintage Photograph. Looking west on 42nd Street from Tudor City, New York City

Lincoln, Nebraska, Seed and feed store, photograph by John Vachon, 1942

City street

Seoul South Korea - Annex Office Building - 1977.

New York, New York: January 7, 1924 A view of Columbus Circle taken from a Fairchild-Fokker photographic airplane at work on the mapping of greater New York City for the city government.

Western Jr. High, Somerville , Schools. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Pawn shop. Pawn shop

Shoveling snow away from the movie entrance, Chillicothe, Ohio 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Vintage Photograph. Exterior view of Sunflower Spiritual Church.

Identical houses in New Jersey.. Photographs. 1936-02. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

City Chevrolet Company, Inc. -- 109 N. W. Second St., 8th and Main, 3rd and Vine , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Toward S.E. expressway and Quincy Market restoration from Atlantic Ave. , Markets, Building construction, Scaffolding, Quincy's Market Boston, Mass.. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Berenice Abbott, Untitled Boston Arena, c. 1930, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Capri City Center Motor Hotel, 12th & Central West, Albuquerque, N. Mex., downtown near Old Town , Motels, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

1980s America - Radio TV Service, 430 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981.

The "***** Square" of Rome is Piazza Barberini, brilliantly lit at ***** by multicolored neon lights. Much of the city's night life centers around this section. December 17, 1948. (Photo by ACME).

Dallas, Texas, June 1932,View of Dallas skyline as seen from the West Corinth Street Viaduct.

Panorama of Los Angeles, California, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, North America

Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska. 1942 Hotel Capital above Eagle fruit store. Awning sign: Groceries, Cold Meats, Fruit; Make mine Falstaff Beer.

Genoa - Consulate Office Building - 1976, United States photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

Side view of Territorial Enterprise Building, Virginia City, Nevada , Buildings, Signs Notices, Wooden sidewalks. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection

Gallier House, 1132 1134 Royal St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. United States, Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Balconies, Barber poles, Buildings, Ironwork, Patterns, Design elements .

Marina between Lewis and Commercial Wharf , Warehouses, Piers & wharves. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

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