So you haven’t seen them yet.
In our days photographers travel the world in search of new angles famous places on the planet. However, there was a time when cities were rare. With the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, people had an opportunity to capture what they saw around him, including landscapes and city streets. These photographs are visual proof of how has changed over two centuries the urban landscape. A settlement has changed almost beyond recognition. Such crowded and built up cities, such as Los Angeles and new York, appear on these shots quiet settlements, farms, and Indian Mumbai with the wide deserted roads are nothing like the modern crowded and bustling city.
Paris
The Paris 1839 Boulevard du temple did Louis Daguerre, one of the founders of photography. On the left you can see the Shoe-shiners.
Los Angeles
Photo of Los Angeles taken about 1860. In the left corner is the Methodist Church built in 1822.
London
A view of Parliament street from Trafalgar square. This is the earliest picture of London, it was made in 1839.
Jerusalem
The author of this frame of 1844 — French photographer Joseph-Philibert girault de Prange. He traveled to the Middle East, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean in the period from 1841 to 1844, making it over 900 photographs.
Tokyo
Felix Beato took panoramic photos of the city of Edo now known as Tokyo, in 1866. The city has changed dramatically over the years due to natural disasters and war.
New York
So in 1848 looked like the Upper West Side, Manhattan. The photo shows a farmhouse on a hill and the road, now called Broadway. A few years ago this picture was sold at auction for 62 thousand dollars.
Athens
The pictures were taken in 1845.
Mumbai
Photo of the city of Bombay now known as Mumbai, was made in 1850, when India was under the domination of great Britain.
Edinburgh
This frame 1848 is the earliest known photographs of Edinburgh.
Sydney
In 1855 the photographer Robert hunt made a series of stereoscopic images, which were the first known photographs of Sydney. In the frame of Macquarie street.
Rome
The Colosseum in 1842. The photo was taken with a 38-metre-high column of Trajan.
Philadelphia
The picture was taken in 1839 by Joseph Saxton. This is the oldest picture of US surviving.
Singapore
Alphonse-Eugene-Jules Itie, French customs officer, took this photo in 1844.
Washington
One of the earliest photographs of Washington, 1846. In the frame of the Old building of the patent Office, which today houses the national portrait gallery and the Smithsonian Museum of American art.
Toronto
On pictures 1856 — king street.
Copenhagen
On pictures 1840 square Ulfeldts Plads, which a year after was made the frame was renamed Gråbrødretorv.
Chicago
The very first picture of Chicago was taken in 1855. It shows the building of the city court and the administration, which was destroyed during the Great Chicago fire of 1871.
Berlin
Looked like in 1840 the Leipzig street.
Dublin
In the first photo of Dublin in 1848 a group of people posing in front of the Church of St. George. Today it houses offices.
San Francisco
The oldest known photos of the city, 1850. In the frame of the abandoned ships in the Harbor. Later on Board of these vessels were used for road construction.
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