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

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

1903: One Horsepower New Orleans Milk Cart

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

1904: US Treasury Currency Wagon, Washington

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

1899: Farm Yard Scene, Germantown

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

1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida

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

1898: Ferry on the Ocklawaha River, Florida

1902: Cotton Cart, Mobile, Alabama

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

1862: Allan Pinkerton, a feared and famous member of the Secret Service in Antietam, Maryland

1908: Eviction in New York

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

1904: Baltimore

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

1904: Palm Beach Florida Trolley

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

1893: Two Horsepower Prime Mover, Ewen, Michigan

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

1865: Federal troops at Confederate winter quarters near Yorktown, Virginia

1899: Virginia Vegetable Cart

1902: The close of a career

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

1905: Dock Street, Philadelphia

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

1864: General William T. Sherman, near Atlanta, GA

1904: Broad Street lunch carts, New York

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

1902: Tobacco warehouse, Louisville

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

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

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

1905: Norfolk, Virginia

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

1899: Ocean Springs, Mississippi

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