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Free to Use and Reuse: Main Streets

Images from throughout the United States illustrate the variety of main streets or major thoroughfares in urban and rural America from the 1850s to the 2010s. The pictures are from the Prints & Photographs Division collections unless otherwise noted.

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  Canal Street, the main thoroughfare of New Orleans, Louisiana. 1901

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  The Main Street of Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1902

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  A railroad track runs right down the middle of main street in Commerce, Georgia. 2017

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  Street view, Solvang, California. 1976

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  Main Street, Paradise Valley, Nevada. 1978. American Folklife Center

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  Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, ca. 1920

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  Farmer crossing the main street of town, Eufaula, Oklahoma. 1940

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  Bird's-eye view of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1850s

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  Mulberry Street, New York City. around 1900

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  Main Street, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 1964

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  Deadwood, South Dakota. 1980-2006

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  On main street of Cascade, Idaho. 1941

• Plan - Pueblo of Santa Clara, Central Portion, Rio Arriba County, NM. 1972

• Distant view up Main Street towards the 1856 Jefferson County Courthouse in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 2020

• San Juan, Puerto Rico. A street in the shopping district. 1941

• Main Street, Pittsboro, North Carolina. 1939

• Main Street, Creede, Colorado. 1942

• Main Street Hartford, Connecticut. 1870-1900

• Little Old Main Street. Sheet music cover, 1909

• 11th Street, Tacoma, Washington. 2003

• Main Street, Stillwater, Minnesota. 2003

• Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 1902

• Boardwalk and Tram Wildwood, New Jersey. 1978

• Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 1906

• Downtown Portland, Maine. 2017

• A block of Commercial Street in Springfield, Missouri. 2020

• Main Street, Marshalltown, Iowa. 1939

• Main street of Greensboro, Alabama. 1941

• Main street, Rockville, Indiana. 1940

• South Professor Street, Oberlin, Ohio. 1907

• Oregon and Mesa Streets, near the plaza, El Paso, Texas. 1916

• Crested Butte, Montana. 2015

• Main street of Nyssa, Oregon, on Saturday afternoon. 1939

• Main Street, Germantown, Pennsylvania. 1860-1880

• Looking down Main Street from Skyscaper building, showing State Capitol, Columbia, South Carolina. 1905

• Main street in Brattleboro, Vermont. 1941

• Street scene in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 2021

• Main Street, Laramie, Wyoming. 1940

• The main street, Mackinac Island, Michigan. 1905

• Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island. 1982

• South 1st Street, Raton, New Mexico. 1991

• Washington Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1910-1920

• Main Street, Michigan, North Dakota. 1937

• Main shopping street, Christiansted, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. 1939

• Shady side of Main Street, Elkins, West Virginia. 1939

• River Street Historic District, Claremont, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. 1980

• Clouds descending into the main street, Juneau, Alaska. 1900-1923

• 2nd and Main Street, Ottawa, Kansas. 1909

• South Main Street, looking south from Peru Street, Princeton, Illinois. Around 1910

• Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona. 1908

• Main Street palms, Jacksonville, Florida. 1910

• Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1904

• Main Street of Dover, Delaware. 1938

• East Main Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky. 1985

• Main Street, Winchester, Virginia. 1940