Gita Lenz. Street Scene (Carmine Street & 7th Avenue, NY), late 1940s - 1950s

Andreas Feininger. The Bowery under the shadows of the Third Avenue el, circa 1940s

Walter Joseph

Street markets of London, 1940s

Walter Joseph

Street markets of London, 1940s

Gita Lenz

Street Scene (Carmine Street & 7th Avenue, NY), late 1940s - 1950s

Corner of Liberty and Fifth Avenues, Pittsburgh, ca. 1940

“Street-level view of the corner of Liberty and Fifth Avenues taken at approximately 10:35 AM, focusing on pedestrians wearing hats. A Coca Cola sign is clearly visible in the background, as well as the Standard Typewriters Co. sign. The smoke in this image is particularly heavy.”

From University of Pittsburgh / Smoke Control Lantern Slide Collection, ca. 1940s-1950s

Estúdio Horácio Novais

Ardina, Lisboa, Portugal, 1930-1980

[Street vendor of newspapers, Lisbon, Portugal, 1930-1980]

From Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Robert Frank

Pedestrian Crossing Center White Line on 34th Street, NY, 1948

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fred Lyon

Cable Car Line In San Francisco, 1940s.

Émile Savitry. Coalman, Saint-Jacques boulevard, Paris, 1940s. From Émile Savitry 1903-1967 - Un Photographe de Montparnasse