How to clean the streets in the past

Today, we have a specific collection of photos. Whom we often meet in the morning? That's right, janitors and cleaners of the streets. On them, and improvised means today and will be discussed. How to clean the streets of New York over a century ago?

Although, in fact, in the lens more than mechanical means of cleaning. After the beginning of the last century was a breakthrough in many areas of human activity. Including in the development of various units, which could simplify the process of this or that work.



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Janitors, New York, 1896.













The machine for cleaning streets, Vienna, 1896.



Cleaning the streets from snow, New York, 1899.



Demonstration of the first machine for cleaning the streets, New York, 1910.





Snow cleaning, New York, 1908.











Another sweeper horse-drawn, New York, 1912.



Demonstration machine Marcus Butler, New York, 1914.