Photos of American cities from Civil War era to 1912…
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- Nashville, Tenn., from the statehouse, 1864. Photograph by George N. Barnard. Mathew Brady collection. The statehouse portico
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- Chattanooga, Tenn. in time of war. Soldiers’ tents and supply wagons beside the city building. 1864. Mathew Brady collection. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- The ruins of Mills House and nearby buildings, Charleston, S.C. A shell-damaged carriage and the remains of a brick chimney in the foreground. 1865. Photograph by George N. Barnard. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Shells of the buildings of Richmond, Va., silhouetted against a dark sky after the destruction by Confederates, 1865. Mathew Brady collection. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Store-lined street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1869. Photograph by William H. Jackson. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Panorama of Helena, Mont., in 1870. Photograph by William H. Jackson. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- The weatherbeaten wharves between Piety and Desire Streets, New Orleans, La., August 1881. A group of men seated on the wharves, store-lined street in the background. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Bearded Irish clam diggers and a matronly companion on a wharf in Boston, 1882. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Oyster fleet in Baltimore Harbor, Md., ca. 1885. Ships’ masts dominate the foreground; buildings, horse-drawn wagons, and carts visible through them. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- A military parade down the main street of Phoenix, Ariz., ca. 1888. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Panorama of Portland, Oreg., in 1890. Mount Hood in the background. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Man with a derby hat stands atop a mound of oyster shells outside the C. H. Pearson & Company oyster cannery, Baltimore. Workers bring wheel- barrows of shells from the factory to the heap. ca. 1890. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Boston’s fisherman’s wharf jammed with merchants and dock workers, ca. 1890. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- “Terminal,” by Alfred Steiglitz, 1892. Original lantern slide in the International Museum of Photography, New York. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Horse-drawn wagons and carriages, an electric trolley car, and pedestrians congest a cobblestone Philadelphia street in 1897. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Two officials of the New York City Tenement House Department inspect a cluttered basement living room, ca. 1900. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- New York City’s Fifth Avenue bustling with horse-drawn traffic and two motor cars. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Residents in front of a dilapidated frame house in Kansas City, ca. 1900. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Children play ball in the street in front of typical housing with five rooms per family for 0 to 2 per month. San Francisco, ca. 1900. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Shoppers at the outdoor food market, 7th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.. Washington, D.C. View looking up 7th Street, ca. 1900. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, New York City, taken from the roof, ca. 1900. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Hundreds of wooden barrels covering the docks at the resin yards, Savannah, Ga., 1903. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- The Eighth Avenue trolley, New York City, sharing the street with horse-drawn produce wagon and an open automobile. Downtown, looking north. 1904. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Three gentlemen pass the time on a park bench in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Tex., 1906. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- The ruins of San Francisco, still smoldering after the 1906 earthquake, taken from the tower of the Union Ferry Building. Market Street between Sacramento and Third Streets. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Elegantly dressed New Yorkers on Fifth Avenue, Easter morning, 1906. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Treasury Department official, surrounded by packages of newly minted currency, counting and wrapping dollar bills. Washington, D.C., 1907. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- The Saint Louis, Mo., waterfront crowded with steamboats at the start of President William H. Taft’s inspection trip down the Mississippi River, Oct. 1909. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Pedestrians on the upper deck promenade of Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, ca. 1910. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- An Indian enclave in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Primitive shelters with modern city street behind. 1912. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Stevedores on a New York dock loading barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, ca. 1912. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Women assembling dolls on a long worktable at the Shrenhat Toy Company, Philadelphia, Oct. 1912. (Courtesy of the National Archives)
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- Architects at their drafting tables at the Treasury Department Building, Washington, D.C., 1912. (Courtesy of the National
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