#street scene

Street scene, Darb el Ahmar, Cairo.

Japan in the late 1940s by Robert V. Mosier

 A general view of the Hibiya Crossing on January 7, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.

People gather on the streets for New Year’s Celebration, Tokyo, 1949

Ph. Carl Mydans

People out and about during the New Year season, Japan, 1950s

General view of Ginza District on December 17, 1964 in Tokyo, Japan

People prepare paper lanterns prior to the Tanabata Festival on August 7, 1954 in Yamaguchi, Japan.

Ph. Yasuo Tomishige

Tanabata (七夕), also known as the “star festival”, takes place on the 7th day of the 7th month of the year, when, according to a Chinese legend, the two stars Altair and Vega, which are usually separated from each other by the milky way, are able to meet. Colorful Tanabata festivals are held across Japan in early July and August.

People walk in the rain at Ginza district on January 29, 1957 in Tokyo, Japan

Portrait of a group posing in a street after a snowstorm in Steubenville, Ohio, c. 1880′s. By D. Filson and Son.

Source: New York Public Library.

Daguerreotype portrait of two men posing in a street in Rome, the Papal States, 1842. By French photographer Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey.

Source: Sotheby’s.

1915-1923. “Street vendor, Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

1915-1923. “Street vendor, Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

1915-1923. “Street views, pedestrians. Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

1939. “Washington, D.C. A street scene, showing a car at the entrance of the Office of Internal Revenue, facing the Benjamin Franklin post office qt 12th and Pennsylvania Avenue." Myers, David (David Moffat), photographer. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

1924. “With Wash. melting under the hottest day of the year, Russell T. Edwards of the Amer. Tree Assn. starts a new style for men by throwing his hat away and carrying a chinese parsol. He carries it on the golf course too." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

1915-1923. “Street views, pedestrians. Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

1915-1923. “Street vendor, salted peanuts, pies, milk, doughnuts. Washington, D.C." Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.

Shudehill, Manchester.