Vintage shots from days gone by!

Treasury Department official, surrounded by packages of newly minted currency, counting and wrapping dollar bills. Washington, D.C., 1907

 

Elegantly dressed New Yorkers on Fifth Avenue, Easter morning, 1906

 

The ruins of San Francisco, still smoldering after the 1906 earthquake, taken from the tower of the Union Ferry Building. Market Street between Sacramento and Third Streets

 

Three gentlemen pass the time on a park bench in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Tex., 1906

 

The Eighth Avenue trolley, New York City, sharing the street with horse-drawn produce wagon and an open automobile. Downtown, looking north. 1904.

 

Hundreds of wooden barrels covering the docks at the resin yards, Savannah, Ga., 1903

 

Airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, New York City, taken from the roof, ca. 1900.

 

Shoppers at the outdoor food market, 7th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.. Washington, D.C. View looking up 7th Street, ca. 1900

 

Children play ball in the street in front of typical housing with five rooms per family for $10 to $12 per month. San Francisco, circa. 1900.

 

Residents in front of a dilapidated frame house in Kansas City, circa. 1900

 

Easter morning, 1900. New York City's Fifth Avenue bustling with horse-drawn traffic and two motor cars

 

Two officials of the New York City Tenement House Department inspect a cluttered basement living room, circa. 1900

 

Horse-drawn wagons and carriages, an electric trolley car, and pedestrians congest a cobblestone Philadelphia street in 1897.

 

Terminal," by Alfred Steiglitz, 1892. Original lantern slide in the International Museum of Photography, New York.

 

Boston's fisherman's wharf jammed with merchants and dock workers, circa. 1890

 

Happy Thanksgiving all. Remember to give thanks for our veterans and servicemen and women.

 

OHH_mama........

 

I believe this ad writer worked previously on a burlesque theater account.

 

Looks just like my little brother.