Incredible Photos That Capture Everyday Life of the U.S in the Early 20th Century

   

A photo collection that shows what everyday life of the U.S. looked like from the 1900s and 1910s.

 
Chinatown, New York, 1900
 
Broadway in Skagway, Alaska, 1900

 

 
Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900

 

 
Esplanade Street, New Orleans, circa 1900

 

 
French Market in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1900

 

Key West, Florida, circa 1900

 

 
Market Square in Cleburne, Texas, 1900

 

Steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, circa 1900

 

 
Tampa Bay Hotel in Tampa, Florida, 1900

 

 
The obelisk in Central Park, New York, circa 1900

 

The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, circa 1900

 

West Street, New York City, 1900

 

Georgetown, Colorado, 1901

 

 
Hanging rock on the Susquehanna near Danville, Pennsylvania, 1901

 

 
Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 1901

 

Hotel Royal Palm in Miami, Florida, 1901

 

Mining structure in Alaska, 1901

 

 Navajo Indian school in Tohatchi, New Mexico, 1901

 

North face of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1901

 

The lakefront from Illinois Central Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1901

 

 Chicago & North Western Railway, steel viaduct over Des Moines River, Iowa, 1902

 

 The beach and Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1902

 

The Congressional Library in Washington, D.C., 1902

 

 
 El Paso, Texas, 1903

 

Lake and bridge in Central Park, New York, 1903

 

Loading steamer during high water in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903

 

New York from under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1903

 

Old French court yard in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903

 

S.S. Proteus. High water at New Orleans levee, 1903

 

 Santa Fe Railroad Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1903

 

Williamsburg Bridge, New York, 1903

 

'CASE' Corporate Building in Racine, Wisconsin, 1904

 

Driving Park Avenue bridge and falls on Genesee River, Rochester, New York, 1904

 

 C. & O. terminal piers, Newport News, Virginia, 1905

 

Detroit Boat Club, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, 1905

 

Hotel Virginia in Long Beach, California, 1905

 

 Stock Exchange in New York, 1905

 

Transfer steamer in Detroit, Michigan, 1905

 

U.S.S. Maryland in dry dock, Charelstown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 1905

 

Unloading cotton in Memphis, Tennessee, 1905

 

Edge of Chinatown in San Francisco, California, 1906

 

 Italian headquarters, Madison Street, New Orleans, 1906

 

Livestock exchange in Kansas City, Missouri, 1906

 

Manhattan skyline and East River, New York, 1906

 

Ruins of City Hall after the earthquake in San Francisco, California, 1906

 

Southern Railway station in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1906

 

The Dexter Avenue and the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, 1906

 

High Bridge and Kentucky River, 1907

 

Kentucky River and High Bridge, 1907

 

Mexican adobe house in El Paso, Texas, 1907

 

The Water Tower in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 1907

 

A New England granite quarry, 1908

 

Grand Central Terminal under construction, New York, 1908

 

 Milling district, from lower dam, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1908

 

Manhattan Bridge Under Construction, circa 1909

 

A Deluxe overland limited train, Colorado, 1910

 

Blackwell's Island Bridge in New York, 1910

 

Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Washington, D.C., 1910

 

Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1910

 

Packard Motor Car Company, Auto Plant in Detroit, Michigan, 1910

 

Panorama of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910

 

 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida, 1910

 

Street scene in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1910

 

U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1910

 

Arrowrock Dam in Idaho, 1914

 

 The Lincoln Memorial construction, 1914

 

Front Street covered with snow in Nome, Alaska, 1915

 

Packard Motor Co. in Detroit, Michigan, 1915

 

Raw sugar mill in the Hawaiian Islands, 1915

 

Road construction in Tanana, Alaska, 1916

 

The Old Inn in Ester, Alaska, 1916

 

View of Nome, Alaska with snow on ground, 1916

 

 
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., January 1917

 

 
Manhattan Bridge in New York, under Construction, 1919