Vintage Transportation Scenes

Historic images of horse-drawn carriages, early fire engines, and military vehicles, illustrating transportation methods from the early 20th century.

Serbia's fast mail. In Belgrade, Serbia's capital, one mail wagon carries the post from the general post office to the trains. Those leaving for south Serbia, and the east, cover ten miles an hour, and are classed as express trains. The mail wagon is painted black and resembles the wagons which accompanied catchers of stray dogs in many of the eastern cities of the United States, September 1920

Anefo photo collection. Funeral P.H. Boshuizen in The Hague. May 12, 1951. The Hague, South Holland

Firemen's parade

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Princess Juliana in a closed carriage, 1910. 1910

07/31/1920. Madrid. The Events of the Four Paths. Condition in which the Automobile was Left, causing the Accidents that Caused the Riots.

07/31/1915. Preparation workshop truck used in the Different Sections of Military Aviation. Stamp: M. Branger -Approximate date.

G.V.L. Meyer

Two men in a landau carriage , Carriages & coaches. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Serbia's fast mail. In Belgrade, Serbia's capital, one mail wagon carries the post from the general post office to the trains. Those leaving for south Serbia, and the east, cover ten miles an hour, and are classed as express trains. The mail wagon is painted black and resembles the wagons which accompanied catchers of stray dogs in many of the eastern cities of the United States, September 1920

Exposition Universelle (World Fair) Paris, 1900; The Exposition Universelle of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was Art Nouveau. The fair, visited by nearly 50 million, displayed many technological innovations; black and white photograph of King Oscar II of Sweden at the horse races for the Grand Prize of Paris trophy.

Airplane with engine running on a White truck in Preparedness parade in New York City or Chicago

Hector Graziani in an Itala 35/40 HP, the first Targa Florio car race on the Madonie circuit, May 6, 1906, Italy, photograph by Charles Abeniacar, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIII, No 20, May 20, 1906.

Wilson & Mitchel, 1914

Work Horse parade, New York City: horse and delivery wagon

W.L. Smith & W.J. Bryand in Detroiter ca. between 1909 and 1919.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina during driving tour by Amsterdam with King Christiaan X van Denmark During his state visit to the Netherlands, Friday 22 May 1914. 22 May 1914. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Merchant of fried potatoes. Potato merchant fries in a trailer, Amiens. Potato merchant fries in a trailer, Amiens. Photograph of Lagrange.

Joe Gorton's Famous Cornet Band, leader of brass and string band, Golden Serpent Band Chariot, 1850, Joe Gorton's Famous Cornet Band, leader of brass and string band, Golden Serpent Band Chariot, 1850, Stow & Bro. The original Stow's Varieties. F.S. Stow, 2nd band wagon built and used exclusively for that purpose. Clown Banjoist, Clown Violinist

Queen And The Duke Drive Through Hamilton -- Travelling in a Horse-Drawn Landau, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke Of Edinburgh drive through the streets of Hamilton, the modern capital of Bermuda, November 24th at the start of their Commonwealth tour.Replying to an address of welcome in the house of assembly, the Queen expressed happiness to "visit this first of my Parliaments overseas and to find so fine and vigorous a growth". November 25, 1953. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Queen Elizabeth in closed carriage entering Brussels, ClichÚ Neurdin

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Motifus depicting horse and carriage. The image is probably taken by John Hertzberg during a trip in Europe.

Photo collection Government information service. DIAS Museums Continuous series of 4. Undated

Anefo photo collection. Grandbeide visit from Luxembourg. Arrival palace and balcony and inspection. June 5, 1956

Madrid, 1910 (CA.). Children taking a ride in a horse cart.

The first car was built in 1900 and the other (very stream lined) in 1934....What differences there are....!. November 12, 1934.

Firemen on old fire engine

San Francisco, California c. 1890A couple out for a ride in their buckboard wagon drawn by a horse.

Circus parade

London, England - London buses

The Water-Cart Made 1881 Scotland. Woodburytype, plate 11 in the book Street Incidents (1881) . John Thomson (Photographer)

Participants in the Paris-Amsterdam Race for automobiles en route to Coulommiers. 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.

Valencia, 1909. The Infanta Doña Isabel in Valencia. Her Royal Highness accompanied by the Duchess of Nájera, when leaving the station.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Prince Hendrik in a carriage. 1911

U.S. mail truck

The French market, New Orleans, Louisiana, by William Henry Jackson, circa 1890s.

Rapid Transit, Washington, Georgia, Sept. 11, 1903 - Photograph shows a railroad car hitched to two mules next to the J. W. Stephenson Photographers building with an African American man and three Caucasian men on board; a hotel railroad car has the name "Aileen" written on its side; a man and boy, at the back of the railcar lean against it.

Street cleaning - Auto street cleaner. New York

Portrait of men with fire engine in front of engine company

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hendrik During the receipt of King Haakon VII of Norway at the State Railway Station The Hague during its state visit to the Netherlands, 6 June 1923. June 6, 1923. The Hague, South Holland

Getting News of the Titanic

Image of a carriage (with Queen Emma) In Utrecht.

George Grantham Bain, Driving a Stutz Passenger Car near Union Square, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, July 4, 1914

Image of a bus of the N.V Utrecht Persons and goods service with travelers in Vianen.

Indonesian Ambassador Leaves To See The King -- Dr. Subandrio first Indonesian Ambassador to the Court of St. James, revives a custom as he leaves the Embassy (Wilton Crescent, Belgravia) in a state landau drawn by Cleveland bays, this morning. (Thursday).Dr. Subandrio, the first Indonesian Ambassador to Great Britain today drove form his Embassy in a state Landau to Buckingham Palace to present his letters of credence to the King. This marks a revival of a custom - at the King's order discontinued during the war. March 23, 1950. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Image of a parade of decorated horse and cars with people on the Rijksstraatweg in Baambrugge (municipality of Abcoude-Baambrugge), on the occasion of the 100-year commemoration of the restoration of national independence.

Fire engine on a road, New York City, USA, 1913

Old Fireman Ingram.....An early Melbourne metropolitan Fire Brigade appliance. About 1910.Then horses gave way to mothers, the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade was intensely proud of this piece of 1910 equipment. October 21, 1953.

09/30/1919. From the King's trip to France. D. Alfonso Xiii (1) and President Poincare (2) As they pass through the Streets of Rambouillet.

Elsevier photo collection. visit French President Coty Netherlands. Driving tour Amsterdam. Carriage Prince Bernhard Mrs. Coty. July 21, 1954. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Berlin (Germany), February 1934. Napoleon's car at Waterloo, exhibited in the Berlin Army Museum.

Group of Men Seated in Motor Hunting Trap, created De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co., New York, USA, circa 1895

Malmö Simrishamns Railway, MSJ Inspection Tag 19.

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the States General 1968. Princess Margiet and Princess Christina are on the way to the Ridderzaal in a carriage. September 17, 1968

01/31/1912. Another notable float from this year's carnival. "the Arab chest of the cathedral of Huesca", original float that appeared in the Madrid competition.

Horse and carriage. A man in uniform is sitting ready in the carriage drawn by two horses. Sweden 1910

Postal system, motorbike in the service of the Reichspost, Germany, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century template, Europe

Seven unknown people on wooden sledges behind a horse -drawn sled (presumably) in Sankt Moritz, Anonymous, c. 1923 photograph Sankt Moritz photographic support gelatin silver print sleigh, sledge (non-sport). sledge, sleigh (winter sports)

Donkey-drawn wagons in the Czech Republic, Buildings in Karlovy Vary, Carriages in Karlovy Vary, 1913, Karlovy Vary Region, Karlsbad, Eselgespann

1890S 1900S Turn Of The Century Horse & Wagon In Parade Decorated With Flowers & Streamers

Malaga, October 1918. Motorist caravan. Aspect of the Park with the cars prepared for the blessing.

Image of Gerrit Schmidt (left) and his father Cornelis Schmidt with horse and wagon at the Dambrug in Utrecht; In the background the Kazerne der Veldartillerie (Leidseweg 22) .N.B. Gerrit Schmidt was the co-founder of the Lubro Brood- en Confallions in 1919 (Abel Tasmanstraat 9). Father Cornelis Schmidt had a bakery at Bokstraat 17.

07/11/1923. Burgos. The feast of Saint Christopher. Cardinal Benlloch at the blessing of Automobiles Celebrated on the occasion of the festival of the patron saint of Automobiles. (Espiga photo).

Salote Tupou III (born Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu; 13 March 1900 - 16 December 1965) was the first Queen regnant and third Monarch of the Kingdom of Tonga from 1918 to her death in 1965

Arriving at Harriman-Gerry wedding

Antonio Scarfoglio (1886-1969), at the wheel of his Briax-Zuest, at the start of The Great Race (New York-Paris) in Times Square, New York, February 12, 1908, United States of America, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXV, No 9, March 1, 1908.

Face in the Annastraat in Utrecht with the first car sprayer (fire truck) of Utrecht in the foreground; In the background a part of a few houses on Korte Minrebroederstraat.n.b. Date of employment of the first fire truck: February 13, 1909. The fire station includes the following addresses that were connected to each other: Minrebroederstraat 1, 3, and 5, Korte Minrebroederstraat 11, 13, 15, 17, and 23 and Annastraat 2 and 4.

Pius IX's Railroad Car; Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820 - 1884; Rome, Italy, Lazio, Europe; 1859; Albumen silver print; Image: 28.9 x 40.6 cm (11 3/8 x 16 in.)

USA, New York City, 42nd Street And 5th Avenue, 1895

Horse cart with a crate with a new engine for the Fokker F.VII (H-NACC), 1924 photograph Album magazine with a photo of a horse cart with a crate with a new motorcycle for the Fokker F.VII (H-NACC), which undertook the first flight to the Dutch East Indies. From Rotterdam the engine had to be sent to Philippopel (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) where the device was damaged in an emergency landing. Part of the memorial album of the Indies line of KLM, part I. Rotterdam paper. photographic support. cardboard gelatin silver print airborne traffic, aviation. travelling; tourism. four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach. wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket Rotterdam

Baggn & pair that came from Cowra to Sydney ***** at Parliament Home. April 26, 1932.;Baggn & pair that came from Cowra to Sydney ***** at Parliament Home.

Image of members of the Utrechtsch Studenten Corps (U.S.C.) at the Student Society P.H.R.M. (Janskerkhof 14) in Utrecht, prior to a driving tour with a few carriages from Stalhouderij Schoonhoven Buytendijk.

Madrid, 1940 (Ca.). Madrid trams around 1940Published as Gallery on February 13, 2015.

MARAICHER Market car, Saint-Germain market. Album "The car in Paris", 1910. Photography of Eug�ne Atget (1857-1927).

Tourists in Rikshas with native drivers

06/25/1920. Madrid. Automotive Caravan. The Trucks and Cars that Arrived yesterday from Barcelona as they passed by the palace from whose main balcony HM The King witnessed the parade.

Japan (). Route rickshaw with driver and European tourists

Liberty Loans Sales Car ca. 1916-1919 .

View of old fire engine

Women in car with Hughes campaign poster. Underwood & Underwood, photographer (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s) 1916 A group of women in a car with a man in the backseat holding up a sign claiming "Chas. E. Hughes has not voted at all since 1910." The women are also holding up smaller signs. (Verso, print) upper center, black ink: "X2500"; (Verso, print) center, pencil: "=crossed out 3";

Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Welsh of Phila. (in carriage)

Anefo photo collection. The Golden Carriage in Amsterdam, lost in the stables of the Heineken. March 3, 1966. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

London Buses. October 07, 1952. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Old cars in the car museum in Driebergen. Boy at old car. April 6, 1961. Driebergen

Carro de limpieza en las calles de Barcelona. Años 1940.

Anefo photo collection. World animal day 1964, Sjoukje Dijkstra in the carriage. October 5, 1964

Participants in the Paris-Amsterdam Race in their automobile, presumably in the Houffalize region. 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.

Parade float , Parades & processions, Floats Parades, Costumes. Leon Abdalian Collection

Belmont Carriage - Old-Time Newport

Edinburgh (Scotland). Hapag tourists in four-spotted carriages at a ride from the freight train station (probably in an eleven) through the city

Three-horse team fire truck with water tower passing the 1300 block of F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., ca. 1913-1917.

Firefighters Description: "Photograph of Fire Engine manned by seven fireman with a pair of horses." Photograph by RL Sirus. Date: 1884 sepia, fire, transport, firemen, fuego, bomberos, contraincendios

Gold-laden trucks, 9/8/15

01/31/1908. The Kings in Andalusia. HM Queen Victoria Eugenia Getting off the train at Hornachuelos station. On both sides of the Portezuela, shaking hands with His Majesty, the Duke of Santo Mauro and Marquis of Viana.

Electric tram at the Palais de l'Industrie Exhibition, Paris. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Queen Margherita of Savoy visiting the Netherlands in her Sparviero car, photograph by MM Couvee, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXII, No 41, October 8, 1905.

Orphans going to Coney Island in Autos, 6/7/11

1920s MILKMAN REACHING INTO SIDE OF HORSE-DRAWN DELIVERY WAGON

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