Christ's Church steeple with a clock and belfry dominates the background, identifying the scene as Boston circa 1880. The street is lined with narrow 19th-century rowhouses, a mix of clapboard and brick facades with operable shutters and dormer windows, suggestive of Federal or Georgian-influenced urban architecture. Men in long Victorian overcoats and bowler or top hats are visible at street level, and a horse-drawn carriage appears to be at the far end of the street; a wall-mounted gas street lamp is also visible, reinforcing the late 19th-century date. No motor cars are evident in the frame, consistent with the era, and the glass-slide image shows period wear such as dust specks and light fading.

A busy urban thoroughfare framed by a monumental Classical Revival / Beaux-Arts commercial block on the right, with tall Corinthian-style columns and arched windows. Multiple double-truck streetcars run on center tracks, with horse-drawn wagons and what appears to be a few early motorcars sharing the roadway; the transit mix likely dates to circa 1900s-1910s. Pedestrians in Edwardian-era dress populate the sidewalks - men in suits and bowler hats and women in long skirts and large hats - and signage for "Humboldt Savings Bank" is visible on a distant tower. The image is from a glass slide and documents the layered commercial and transit life of a turn-of-the-century American downtown.

The Robert Smith India Pale Ale Brewing Co. As it says on the building in the background of the image. This image is from West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1870. Located at 24th Ward at N.38th St Girard Ave, Reading Railroad. Company was founded in 1774 and sold in 1881. Closed when prohibition began in 1896. This image also represents the Horse Drawn Carriages.

A bustling downtown Boston street scene from March 6, 1905, showing Washington Street looking north from south of Winter Street. The photograph captures early-20th-century urban life with well-dressed pedestrians in Edwardian-era clothing—men in dark suits and bowler hats, women in long skirts and fitted jackets typical of 1905 fashion. Visible signage includes "Peoples Cream & Co." advertising "Everything We Wear" for men and women. The street features visible trolley tracks embedded in the cobblestone pavement, with trolleys visible in the background. Horse-drawn carriages and what appears to be early commercial delivery wagons occupy the street. Multi-story Romanesque Revival and Classical Revival commercial buildings with ornate stonework line both sides of the street. A street-mounted clock is visible on the right side. The photograph captures the characteristic street-level activity and commercial density of a major American downtown district in the early 1900s.

Carriage holds women on there way .circa 1890

The Westinghouse Co Schenectady N.H. 1882

Interesting photo of two men in a carriage one holding an instrument box the other the reins unknown location in the USA . circa 1890

A Man on the top of a flag pole working on a weather vane in front of the Hotel Elton now the Elton & Green in Waterbury CT. a must view absolutely shows the men who really built America.One of two of this location.

The Blacksmiths of New Mexico

Blacksmith Tom Bryant New Mexico circa 1880.

Loman Bros. 202 S Los Angeles st NM. Plumbing gas fitters circa 1880.

Boy watches team outside Wholesale liquor in NM a sign reads meals 25 cents!

NM GW Hawkins Second hand Furniture Circa 1880 4 african american men one with a bike one holding a rocking chair on his shoulders stand for a photo opp.

This is a port circa 1900 ..

The W & Taylor Groceries Carriage Massachusetts circa 1908