These first pictures of cities around the world show how much they've changed

These days, the photographers travel the world in search of new perspectives of famous places of the planet. However, there was a time when cities were rare. With the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, people had an opportunity to capture what they saw around him, including landscapes and city streets.

These photographs are a visual proof of how has changed over two centuries of urban landscape. A settlement has changed almost beyond recognition. Such crowded and built up the city, such as Los Angeles and new York, stand on these shots peaceful settlements, farms, and Indian Mumbai with a wide and desolate roads are nothing like the modern crowded and bustling city.

Paris

The Paris 1839, of the Boulevard du temple made by Louis Daguerre, one of the creators of the photo. On the left you can see the Shoe-shiners.

Los Angeles

Photography of Los Angeles made around 1860. In the left corner is visible Methodist Church, built in 1822.

London

View of Parliament street from Trafalgar square. This is the earliest photo of London, it was made in 1839.

Jerusalem

The author of this frame 1844 French photographer Joseph-Philibert girault de Prance. He traveled to the Middle East, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean in the period from 1841 to 1844, while making over 900 photographs.

Tokyo

Felice Beato took panoramic photos of the city of Edo, now known as Tokyo, in 1866. The city has changed dramatically over the years due to natural disasters and war.

New York

So in 1848 looked the Upper West Side, Manhattan. The photo seen a farmhouse on the hill and the road, now called the Broadway. A few years ago, this photograph was sold at auction for 62 thousand dollars.

Athens

The pictures were taken in 1845.

Mumbai

A photograph of the city of Bombay now known as Mumbai, was made in the 1850's, when India was under the rule of great Britain.

Edinburgh

This frame of 1848 — the earliest known photographs of Edinburgh.

Sydney

In 1855, the photographer Robert hunt made a series of stereoscopic images, which became the first known photographs of Sydney. In the frame of Macquarie street.

Rome

The Colosseum in 1842. The photo was taken with a 38-metre column of Trajan.

Philadelphia

The picture was taken in 1839 by Joseph Saxton. Is this the oldest photograph of US surviving.

Singapore

Alphonse-eugène-Jules ITE, French customs officer, took this photo in 1844.

Washington

One of the earliest photographs of Washington, 1846. In the frame of the Old building of the Bureau of patents, which today houses the national portrait gallery and the Smithsonian Museum of American art.

Toronto

In the photo, 1856 — king street.

Copenhagen

In pictures 1840 square Ulfeldts Plads, which in the year after was made the frame was renamed in Gråbrødretorv.

Chicago

The first photo of Chicago was made in 1855. It shows the building of the city court and the administration, which was destroyed during the Great Chicago fire of 1871.

Berlin

So looked in 1840 Leipzig street.

Dublin

In the first photo of Dublin in 1848 a group of people posing in front of the Church of St. George. Today it houses offices.

San Francisco

The oldest known photographs of the city, 1850. In the frame of abandoned ships in the Harbor. Later on Board these ships were used for road construction.