where can i find vintage photos and videos of US cities?

Can someone tell me where I can find vintage photos and especially videos (around 1950's) of US cities. I'd really love to watch them

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1. Recently I've run across vintage photos of US cities on www.art.com. Do a search for several cities and see what comes up. The city can be large or small. The images are selling for $19.95, however, it is fun just to look and see the old buildings and cityscape's. The vintage images will be mixed in with current ones. What you'll be looking for is images that are horizontal in nature. They are all about the same size. Although they look painted, they are hand colored. Someone photographed a building or street and then they used oils or some other medium to color over the images. These image were probably created in the 1920's - 1950's. I found several images of my town, population 47,000. There were images of our park, drive-in restaurant and our downtown area. The people who produced them must have gone from city to city and made the images for sale. I'm not sure if they were in book form or sold individually. You can find a lot of individual buildings, mainly public, for each town. I ran across these images last week while on a business trip in Kansas City. The hotel I stayed at featured these vintage images on their walls. They were displayed as fine art prints with matting and frames. When I arrived home I did a search on www.art.com and found these images of my town and others. Good Luck!
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