Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars

   

Before cars, people used horses and buggies to get around and clung to coastal settlements to use the waterways for trade. There were not many roads in America at the time, and the roads were usually in poor condition. These 25 amazing vintage photographs show what Americans used to use for transportation before cars were invented?

1905: The Jersey Shore

 

1903: One Horsepower New Orleans Milk Cart

 

 
1904: US Treasury Currency Wagon, Washington
 
 
1899: Farm Yard Scene, Germantown
 
 
1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida

 

1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida
 
 
1902: Cotton Cart, Mobile, Alabama

 

1862: Allan Pinkerton, a feared and famous member of the Secret Service in Antietam, Maryland
 
 
1908: Eviction in New York
 
 
1904: Baltimore
 
 
1904: Palm Beach Florida Trolley

 

 
1893: Two Horsepower Prime Mover, Ewen, Michigan
 
 
1865: Federal troops at Confederate winter quarters near Yorktown, Virginia
 
 
 
1899: Virginia Vegetable Cart

 

1902: The close of a career
 
 
1905: Dock Street, Philadelphia
 
 
1864: General William T. Sherman, near Atlanta, GA

 

 
1904: Broad Street lunch carts, New York

 

1902: Tobacco warehouse, Louisville
 
 
1898: An Assinaboine Indian, on guard on the outskirts of camp
 
 
1864: Fortified railroad bridge across the Cumberland River at Nashville

 

 
1898: Gathering Sisal, Nassau, Bahama
 
 
1905: Norfolk, Virginia

 

 
1899: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
 
 
1897: Basking Ridge, New Jersey