A photo collection that shows what everyday life of the U.S. looked like from the 1900s and 1910s.
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| Chinatown, New York, 1900 |
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| Broadway in Skagway, Alaska, 1900 |
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| Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900 |
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| Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900 |
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| French Market in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900 |
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| Key West, Florida, circa 1900 |
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| Market Square in Cleburne, Texas, 1900 |
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| Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, circa 1900 |
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| Tampa Bay Hotel in Tampa, Florida, 1900 |
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| The obelisk in Central Park, New York, circa 1900 |
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| The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, circa 1900 |
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| West Street, New York City, 1900 |
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| Georgetown, Colorado, 1901 |
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| Hanging rock on the Susquehanna near Danville, Pennsylvania, 1901 |
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| Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 1901 |
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| Hotel Royal Palm in Miami, Florida, 1901 |
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| Mining structure in Alaska, 1901 |
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| Navajo Indian school in Tohatchi, New Mexico, 1901 |
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| North face of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1901 |
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| The lakefront from Illinois Central Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1901 |
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| Chicago & North Western Railway, steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, 1902 |
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| The beach and Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1902 |
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| The Congressional Library in Washington, D.C., 1902 |
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| El Paso, Texas, 1903 |
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| Lake and bridge in Central Park, New York, 1903 |
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| Loading steamer during high water in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903 |
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| New York from under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1903 |
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| Old French court yard in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903 |
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| S.S. Proteus. High water at New Orleans levee, 1903 |
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| Santa Fe Railroad Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1903 |
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| Williamsburg Bridge, New York, 1903 |
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| 'CASE' Corporate Building in Racine, Wisconsin, 1904 |
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| Driving Park Avenue bridge and falls on Genesee River, Rochester, New York, 1904 |
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| C. & O. terminal piers, Newport News, Virginia, 1905 |
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| Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, 1905 |
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| Hotel Virginia in Long Beach, California, 1905 |
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| Stock Exchange in New York, 1905 |
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| Transfer steamer in Detroit, Michigan, 1905 |
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| U.S.S. Maryland in dry dock, Charelstown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 1905 |
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| Unloading cotton in Memphis, Tennessee, 1905 |
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| Edge of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, 1906 |
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| Italian headquarters, Madison Street, New Orleans, 1906 |
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| Livestock exchange in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906 |
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| Manhattan skyline and East River, New York, 1906 |
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| Ruins of City Hall after the earthquake in San Francisco, California, 1906 |
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| Southern Railway station in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1906 |
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| The Dexter Avenue and the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1906 |
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| High Bridge and Kentucky River, 1907 |
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| Kentucky River and High Bridge, 1907 |
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| Mexican adobe house in El Paso, Texas, 1907 |
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| The Water Tower in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 1907 |
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| A New England granite quarry, 1908 |
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| Grand Central Terminal under construction, New York, 1908 |
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| Milling district, from lower dam, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1908 |
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| Manhattan Bridge Under Construction, circa 1909 |
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| A Deluxe overland limited train, Colorado, 1910 |
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| Blackwell's Island Bridge in New York, 1910 |
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| Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C., 1910 |
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| Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1910 |
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| Packard Motor Car Company, Auto Plant in Detroit, Michigan, 1910 |
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| Panorama of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910 |
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| St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida, 1910 |
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| Street scene in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1910 |
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| U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1910 |
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| Arrowrock Dam in Idaho, 1914 |
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| The Lincoln Memorial construction, 1914 |
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| Front Street covered with snow in Nome, Alaska, 1915 |
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| Packard Motor Co. in Detroit, Michigan, 1915 |
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| Raw sugar mill in the Hawaiian Islands, 1915 |
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| Road construction in Tanana, Alaska, 1916 |
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| The Old Inn in Ester, Alaska, 1916 |
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| View of Nome, Alaska with snow on ground, 1916 |
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| Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., January 1917 |
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| Manhattan Bridge in New York, under Construction, 1919 |
