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There was a time when people used to travel by horse-driven carriages, not by cars and buses.
Let's take a look at how people used to travel in late 1800s and early 1900s, according to Business Insider.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
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In 1897, horse-drawn wagons and carriages were the main form of transportation, but electric trolley cars served as public transportation.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
On Easter morning in 1900, mostly horse drawn carriages fill the street, but two motor cars can be seen here.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
Even in 1900 it was possible to commit a traffic violation. This car is being stopped by a police man on a bicycle.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
In 1904, the Eighth Avenue trolley in New York.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
Pickwick stages, counterparts of modern day buses, outside Union Station, Los Angeles, awaiting passengers bound for southern California in 1920.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
In 1933, city officials inspect a New York City subway car newly equipped with ventilating devices that operate while the car's windows are closed.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
An aerial view of a traffic jam on 14th Street and Wall in Washington, DC in 1937.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
New York City's Sixth Avenue elevated railway and the crowded street below, circa 1940.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
Five steam locomotives, side by side, outbound from Chicago at dusk in 1940.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
Rear view of an Oklahoma car, passing through Amarillo, Texas, on its way west, in 1941.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
The ferryboat Dongan Hills, filled with commuters, about to dock at a New York City pier, circa 1945.
RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
A grandmother amuses her young companion in the waiting room of the Greyhound Bus Station in New York City in July 1947.
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RARE photos reveal how people used to travel
Photographs: Courtesy, archives.gov
Very complicated 1947 street signs in Washington, DC.
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