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?
1905: The Jersey Shore |
1903: One Horsepower New Orleans Milk Cart |
1904: US Treasury Currency Wagon, Washington |
1899: Farm Yard Scene, Germantown |
1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida |
1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida |
1902: Cotton Cart, Mobile, Alabama |
1862: Allan Pinkerton, a feared and famous member of the Secret Service in Antietam, Maryland |
1908: Eviction in New York |
1904: Baltimore |
1904: Palm Beach Florida Trolley |
1893: Two Horsepower Prime Mover, Ewen, Michigan |
1865: Federal troops at Confederate winter quarters near Yorktown, Virginia |
1899: Virginia Vegetable Cart |
1902: The close of a career |
1905: Dock Street, Philadelphia |
1864: General William T. Sherman, near Atlanta, GA |
1904: Broad Street lunch carts, New York |
1902: Tobacco warehouse, Louisville |
1898: An Assinaboine Indian, on guard on the outskirts of camp |
1864: Fortified railroad bridge across the Cumberland River at Nashville |
1898: Gathering Sisal, Nassau, Bahama |
1905: Norfolk, Virginia |
1899: Ocean Springs, Mississippi |
1897: Basking Ridge, New Jersey |