Cities in the late 1800s, early 1900s

[Caernavon]

Wow, what a great thread! In the very first photo MonkeyRonin posted, the aerial of Boston looking east, does anyone suppose that large tank in the upper part of the photo was the molasses tank owned by the Purity Distilling Company which burst open in 1919, drowning 21 people? I know that's the section of the city where the disaster happened (the north edge of the North End near the Hahbuh).

[Derek]

im loving this thread!

[TheBostonBoy]

sick thread.....i loved cities back then, but cities now are a lot different and a lot more creative architecture lol, the older buildings r like all the same
and some one put some more BOSTON pictures up from that time

[FREKI]

Copenhagen City Hall Square 1898


Copenhagen Habour 1885


The now gone Aborre Park 1900


Højbro Square 1900

[NEWARKNJREP]

i cant believe there is no newark on here...newark was a beautiful city(and still is)

[atl2phx]

1866 - atlanta train depot remains following surrender to union forces.

1875 - atlanta - peachtree at five points

1885 - atlanta - peachtree at five points

1889 - atlanta - downtown perspective from the dome of state capital

1925 - atlanta - peachtree at five points

1936 - atlanta - billboards near housing - location unknown

1945 - atlanta - peachtree and forsyth at five points

[Nunavuter]

Great images!

[Hootch]

This is the most beautiful downtown I've ever seen!

The building on the left...I'm just speechless!

[anm]

Moscow 1886 (according to another source - 1867)
the pics are taken from Cathedral of Christ The Saviour

source Live Journal

The photographer did not mean to make a panorama, thus he did not create overlap between adjacent shots, so there are some gaps in the concatenation.



and another version, based on the same initial pics

[someone123]

The early-mid 1860s seem like a more reasonable date for those Moscow photos. Moscow's population is listed at 750,000 for the mid-1880s and 370,000 for the mid-1860s. Housing conditions would have been very crowded in 19th century Moscow but not that crowded.

Here are a few more pictures I have found:

Aerials of Halifax (North End), ~1920s



King Street, Saint John (looks to be around 1900)

[McBane]

these pics are amazing. anyone have ones of cities that grew very rapidly over the past few decades? I'm talking about Singapore, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Brasilia, etc.

to everyone who's posted thus far, thanks great pics!

Source: Kitchener-Waterloo Street Railway

http://www.trainweb.org/elso/kw_st_ry.htm

Downtown Berlin, Ontario (now Kitchener) when it was getting it's streetcars put in. Ironic how we're finally catching up to our own urbanity from 100 years ago, lol. I can't even recognize the town in these photos.

[fflint]

^New photos must meet proper crediting policies.

Originally Posted by fflint

^New photos must meet proper crediting policies.

Ooops. What are the proper crediting policies? Do I just provide a link?

[fflint]

^Read the rules in the sticky thread at the top of all subforums.

Originally Posted by fflint

^Read the rules in the sticky thread at the top of all subforums.

Alright, I added the source.

[boden]

Belleville in the 1880's.

[sznter]

Stureplan, Stockholm in 1910.

Picture from Galma vykort 1900-1950, Rolf Ekberg


Slussen, Stockholm seen from Katarinahissen in 1920.

Picture from Galma vykort 1900-1950, Rolf Ekberg

[olga]

Wow, that Moscow pano is fantastic. It's amazing how dramatically that city has changed over the years.

[fugacious224488]

I'm still mad that most of these cities have half of the buildings destroyed for parking lots and such
I imagine if they had kept the street cars then most American cities would much much better public transport systems then they have now lol.