COLLECTION
Cities
Photographs of streets, skylines, crowds and the places people built together
New York Before the Skyscraper Age
Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday in 1900 reveals a city already crowded, commercial and modern—but still dominated by horses and low-rise streets.
Paris, 1900: A City Performing the Future
At the Exposition Universelle, Paris presented electric light, new machines, architecture and spectacle as evidence of a rapidly changing world.
The Eiffel Tower Before It Was the Eiffel Tower
A construction photograph from 1888 captures Paris in the middle of an experiment that would become one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks.
Inside the Victorian Railway Station
A small Swedish station photograph reveals how railways brought machines, workers and communities together in the age of steam.