Before cars, people used horses and buggies to get around and clung to coastal settlements to use the waterways for trade. There were not many roads in America at the time, and the roads were usually in poor condition. These 25 amazing vintage photographs show what Americans used to use for transportation before cars were invented?
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1905: The Jersey Shore |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1903: One Horsepower New Orleans Milk Cart |
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1904: US Treasury Currency Wagon, Washington |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1899: Farm Yard Scene, Germantown |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1902: Cotton Cart, Mobile, Alabama |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1862: Allan Pinkerton, a feared and famous member of the Secret Service in Antietam, Maryland |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1908: Eviction in New York |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1904: Baltimore |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1904: Palm Beach Florida Trolley |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1893: Two Horsepower Prime Mover, Ewen, Michigan |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1865: Federal troops at Confederate winter quarters near Yorktown, Virginia |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1899: Virginia Vegetable Cart |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1902: The close of a career |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1905: Dock Street, Philadelphia |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1864: General William T. Sherman, near Atlanta, GA |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1904: Broad Street lunch carts, New York |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1902: Tobacco warehouse, Louisville |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1898: An Assinaboine Indian, on guard on the outskirts of camp |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1864: Fortified railroad bridge across the Cumberland River at Nashville |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1898: Gathering Sisal, Nassau, Bahama |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1905: Norfolk, Virginia |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1899: Ocean Springs, Mississippi |
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars
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1897: Basking Ridge, New Jersey |