Joseph Byron photographer. courtesy The Library of Congress
Children playing along the street gutter next to a horse carcass in New York City, circa 1900. People used to live next to piles of muck and dead animals; the street gutters were one of New York’s first pieces of sanitary infrastructure after the Department of Sanitation was established.
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Standard section of a street of Berlin, Germany in 1896. Conduits for telephone, electricity, gas, sewage, and tap water are hidden under, while the water catchbasin lies between the street and sidewalk.
The emergence of curbside signs. Collage on a sketch from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown published in 1972.
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