Wow
Anyone else can feel free to contribute. Bonus points if it's from somewhere other than America. Most of the images I have are from the US.
>>2508801
>bonus points for at least naming/describing image.
Arnhem 1932, does that still qualify as early 1900s?
The same square in 1914
>>2509081
Some of these are pretty self-explanatory.
>>2509082
Personally, I think the cutoff date is around the 20s/Pre-WWI. But you can post whatever you like.
Most photos I got from the early thirties, could have been taken in the 10s with nobody being able to tell the difference...might post a few.
Also, everything I post is the same city. This building is a concert hall built in 1847.
ENKA factory, this would later grow into becoming multinational AkzoNobel
>>2509101
>>2509103
>>2509109
Really cool. Thanks.
>>2509098
To an American audience yes.
This thread is more erotic than the celeb threads.
>>2508730
This is Jersey Shore in 1910. Looks pretty much the same today, right?
>>2509452
It's so strange looking at people in pictures from back then.
They're all dead, and their children are doing pretty much the same things, regardless of the progress in knowledge and understanding about the world.
>>2508748
I find it interesting that the bicycle hasn't changed it's for or design very much since the early 1900's. Maybe they're lighter and made of tougher materials since then.
Cars have changed. So have planes. But that bike isn't very much different from what we have now.
>>2509553
Well there isn't that much that can be improve (without turning it into a motorcycle).
You could also say that cars haven't changed, they still have four wheels, engine, brakes... in it's essence it's still the same thing.
>>2509553
What you're looking at there, is the 'Safety Bicycle' which, as you said, is the basis for pretty much all modern era bike design. But go back beyond the 1880's and you'll find some surprising designs... every new platform goes through trial and error.
The Woolworth Building. It was the tallest in the world in 1913.
>>2509658
jheeez
Check The Horsepower
>>2509553
The bicycle is a machine designed to use the human body as it's powerplant. Once you hit upon the optimal design not a whole lot is gonna change about that.
>>2510254
Early color photos are awesome.
>>2510534
>Early color(ed) photos are awesome.
>fixed
>>2511075
While the one I quoted was colorized, the ones taken by Prokudin-Gorsky were actually taken in color.
>>2508730
ITT: Everyone posting from Shorpy
>>2511355
There's some stuff from elsewhere. But you really can't beat Shorpy when it comes to extremely old hi-res photos.
>>2511359
Original image: (9,999 × 8,011 pixels, file size: 23.99 MB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Field
>>2511722
What the F did you use to 'resize' that pic?
>>2512154
normally I just chuck them through Microsoft Paint just resaving any image reduces it a couple of megabytes
>>2511313
they have cute little faces on their shields
>>2509494
Does anyone know what this is? Looks like some army prototype for caterpillars. And what army?
>>2517871
http://www.fordmodelt.net/blog/2014/05/08/a-ford-model-t-equipped-with-chase-tracks/
>>2517872
Thanks anon
>>2519834
loving the ghost factor
seemingly it became a long exposure
Saved all.
One day I will repay the favor when I organize my pics.
One day.
very good thread op, thanks
too bad I rarely have descriptions together with the pic
Are you guys interested in pre '900 photos as well?
>>2522080
>Are you guys interested in pre '900 photos as well?
Sure!
>>2522307
good.
well, few moths ago I spent some hours on your Library of Congress ('your' because I'm not a US citizen...) browsing the photographies of Mathew Brady (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Brady), the great photographer of the America Civil War.
I think I actually started already a thread with his pictures.
Anyway, here's one.
>Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Scene showing deserted camp and wounded soldier (Zouave), (ca. 1865)
>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2012649041/
>>2522307
>>2522670
btw, on the website (you can find the link next to the picture) the photo is usually more than 30MB.
>Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Aquia Creek and Fredericksburg Railroad, construction corps at work, Va., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
Sorry, I guess I didn't write down the url for this one.
>>2522307
bingo
Three Group Portraits of Union Officers of the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade in Fair Oaks, Virginia (1862)
Portrait of an African American servant boy wearing a Zouave uniform and holding a sword posing in front of a tent in a Union camp near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, c. 1862.
brunch
>>2522307
More from Brady
>Mathew Brady, Treasury Dept. (1860-1880)
>http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/brh2003004940/PP/
>>2523317
>>2523314
I've always loved that crude yet very credible way to 3d
>>2509494
Look closely st the number plate you can see 'U.S ARMY'
>>2509494
design flaw: you can't steer. not without a special transmission that could drive both left and right tracks independently, and I'm willing to bet they didn't engineer something just for that.
Quality thread, thanks a lot.
>>2527035
just left/right brakes
Twenty One years ago I would have eaten that >>2523319 for brunch.
But I don't (so much) anymore, because my wife wants me to stop eating people.
.
ps: I am a Robot, and ALL Lives splatter.
> Mathew Brady, American Civil war, Confederate dead behind stone wall. The 6th. Maine Inf. penetrated the Confederate lines at this point. Fredericksburg, Va., ca. 1860 - ca. 1865
> http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brady-photos/
does WW1 count?
>>2526610
Who? What? Why?
Try doing this nowadays.
>>2531514
Inauguration of Wilson
>>2526610
damn, they don't let you stand out on the exterior dome anymore do they?
glory to him
>>2527035
of course they did you ass
Epic thread. These old pictures make me feel some type of way. For example, think of your Facebook or Instagram pictures. All of your pics will one day be in a digital graveyard exactly the same way these old ones are. Everyone in these pics fell in love, enjoyed entertainment, jerked off, went to work, loved music, and drank. They each had their own life. Something deep to think about.
>>2532254
show me
ass
>>2531524
Proof that the Bat Symbol was stolen from somewhere else
>>2508730
>>2511392
Will there ever be a GTA that takes place in the early 1900s?
>>2532865
Red Dead Redemption is probably the closet thing we'll get.
>>2509452
Why did people even go to the beach back then? They just liked having sand on their suit jackets?
>>2509536
Aaalllll that horseshit and the smell.
>>2532865
Mafia 1 maybe?
>>2531293
The original Cliff House in San Francisco.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1912.
>>2508732
Where is this? This srsly looks JUST like my home town
>>2514049
lol at 1st I thought they were doing burn outs in their old cars
>>2543379
It's the Church of The Epiphany in Washington D.C
>>2532102
looks like Indianapolis
>>2544140
What am I looking at here?
>>2509663
Bolshevik
>>2511116
They used colored oils and later inks to colorize B&W photo's. I used to do this in the old way to B&W photo's and got paid well to do it. Much easier to use photoshop but not even close to the same effect.
>>2532866
OMG there is a woman in the one window not wearing a top
>>2548416
Location?
>>2549371
Pittsburgh, PA
Located just a couple blocks from PNC Park.
The Frick&Lindsay building you see was built in 1911. It now houses the Andy Warhol Museum.
>>2549742
get on with the times, negger
Timeless Classic >>2550403
Since this thread survived into the new year. Here's a photo of William M. Nathan, a Rice University student. This photo was taken January 1st, 1915. Exactly 100 years ago.
>>2535999
There's a reason cars were hailed as a savior of the environment when they first became popular. Even leaded gasoline was cleaner than horseshit.
Sorry I don't have anything to contribute, but did you pay for these images or something? I though you had to pay to get hr images from Shorpy?
>>2544552
LORAN station most likely
Montreal
Morningside Hospital started admitting children. The patient lists during the early years seemed to be populated by miners, gamblers and other who came North to seek their fortunes. By the time Alaska assumed responsibility for providing mental health services to its citizens in 1956, a significant percentage of patients at Morningside were children with developmental disabilities. Some admitted soon after birth.
Rabbit hunting on the Otago Central Railway, ca 1900
>>2535966
To cool off. They didn't have AC. Also just to get out and have some excitement.
>every single one of these people is now dead
Gets me in the feels every time. Really makes one feel tiny in this grand world.
>>2548463
Are you pulling my leg? I don't see any woman.
>>2519834
This is the new Trump Hotel, innit?
The 1900s were gay. Dumb idiots holding back technological advancement else I'd be fucking my android waifu today.
>>2556640
What?
>>2508730
Kind of eerie not seeing sky scrapers.
I bet everything seemed a bit more beautiful when trees were still about as tall as buildings and bridges were the king.
>>2563451
nostalgia faggots are the worst
>>2563463
Was that a Historical question
>>2565717
LOL! That thing looks ridiculous.
>>2560196
https://www.trumphotelcollection.com/washington-dc/
>>2565739
Are you talking about the horseless carriage, or the woman's hat?
whys the frigging board upside down again?
>>2548434
Albert Kahn & autochrome, colour photos from 190x ->
>>2571105
Back at home, and have couple. Not sure what year.
>>2571324
>>2571325
>>2571326
>>2571327
>>2508801
>SHORPY_02893a
July 1913. "Gettysburg reunion: Veterans of the G.A.R. and of the Confederacy, at the Encampment."
THAT ~> >>2575899 is what SHE >>2510875 said.
Central station in Dresden, 1900
Landungsbrücken, port of Hamburg, around 1900
Warships, port of Kiel, early 1900s
Postdamer Platz, Berlin, "Golden Twenties"
>>2558457
they weren't really holding back technological advancement since the industrial revolution. Blame the dark middle-ages and christianity for the lack of your waifu
>>2508730
Threads like this are one of the few good things left on 4chan...
charming thread
>>2568066
Amazingly cool picture. Any information what this event was about?
>>2576256
...that's cannibalism in 1921 Russia
>>2576801
Judging by the gestures some people are making, it's probably people celebrating V-Day,
>>2521860
Wtf is the guy doing at the upper-left hand corner (top of the left-most tower)?
>>2579295
the back flip...
>>2576256
amen
>>2549689
gee I thought the destruction of the old Penn Station was sad... but why did they do that to Pittsburgh?? I know about the pollution and so on, but those buldings...!
More Arnhem, Netherlands. 1900.
>>2568064
Oh shit is that Peekskill? I grew up around that area. The paramount theater is still there.
>>2561595
>put a wonderbread ad on the side of a segregated institute
Talk about adding insult to injury.
>>2531519
Probably because of security purposes
beautiful thread, thanks OP
>>2555576
cross your eyes to see this 3D
>>2538996
I would love to see photos of Argentina in the early 1900's since it was back then one of the most wealthiest countries in the world
>>2514234
Wish I could wear boots like that without getting funny looks. Looks efficient.
I had relatives from the early 1900's!
>>2571327
Aw the horse is tuckered out from playing with those kids!
>upvoted for positivity :)
>>2601688
No shit.
>>2509101
Reverse image search says that photo was taken in 1910.
>>2568066
The perspective makes those buildings look huge as fuck.
>this is what murka used to look like
I noticed that a lot of the pictures already posted on the thread are from shorpy. I just spent a full day browsing through and downloading pics I liked from there.
I imagine I might have spent twice that amount of time if I had taken the time to go through and organize and name everything properly.
Maybe one of these days I'll do it. Hopefully.
A lot of these buildings have been demolished.
Replaced with parking lots.
Or (God forbid) monstrosities of the Modernist sort.
Though I suppose that one thing we can be thankful for in these times is improvement in sanitation.
You'll many in many of these old pictures that the roads are covered in dirt.
A slight typo there. Replace that first many with notice.
Anyways, that dirt? There's a lot of it.
What if I were to tell you that a good chunk of that dirt is literal horse shit?
Not very sanitary, is it? I imagine that a large percentage of a city's budget was in cleaning it up.
To continue where I left off earlier, before my little tangent there, not all of these buildings were demolished for other constructions.
Many of them were also destroyed by fire.
And at least one of the buildings whose images I saved was demolished after it was condemned due to a termite infestation.
>>2509553
Derailleurs. They didn't even use them in the Tour De France until 1937. They used to have to change the whole rear wheel when they wanted to use a different gear size. It wasn't until the mid-60's that the modern parallelogram-style derailleur came into use, and refinements continued right up until fairly recently.
>>2607051
>A lot of these buildings have been demolished.
I hope they kept that building. They sure don't build that anymore.
>>2548434
Prokudin-Gorsky used three different filters to capture images in red, green, and blue. Then he superimposed all three images to produce the color picture. If you look at the borders of the picture I posted you can see the colors of the original plates. He didn't hand-colorize anything.
>>2598373
You can't tell me what to do
>>2608711
That's the Old State House in Boston, by the way. It's still there, unfortunately you can't say the same about the buildings surrounding it in the photo.
I don't regret that we built the buildings that replaced them so much as it is that I regret we had to tear down the old structures to do it.
>>2608711
Sorry for ruining your thread with a colored picture. But I had to see what you meant exactly.
On the topic of buildings, this a sketch done by the futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia in 1914.
