Incredible historic photos show what America looked like in the 19th century
Cath Pound
27 August 2024
The birth of a nation
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1843: President John Quincy Adams
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1846: The White House
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1848: Dolley Madison and niece
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1848: Steamboat on the Cincinnati Waterfront
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1852: California Gold Rush miners
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1861: Confederate flag flying over Fort Sumter
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c.1862: Campbell General Hospital, Washington DC
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1862: Former enslaved people, Virginia
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1863: William H Webb Shipyard
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1865: Lincoln’s second inaugural address
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1865: Grand review of the armies
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1865: Pioneer Run Creek oil field
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1867: Main Street, Salt Lake City
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1869: Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
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c.1870: Virginia City, Nevada
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1871: Thomas Edison
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1875: Brooklyn Bridge under construction
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1876: The Statue of Liberty's arm, Philadelphia World Fair
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1880s: Rockefeller ignoring a beggar
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1882: Oscar Wilde’s collectible photographic portrait
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1885: The Statue of Liberty’s toes
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1886: Geronimo in his camp before the surrender to General Crook
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1888: International Council of Women
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c.1890: Nellie Bly
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1890s: Skyscrapers in Chicago
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c.1892: Five members of The Wild Bunch
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1894: Charles Duryea in his third automobile
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1896: 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps posing at Yellowstone National Park
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c.1898: Chinatown, San Francisco
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1900: Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island
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