Pictured are locals at the start of a model yacht race at Conservatory Lake in Central Park in New York 1910

Photograph shows the aftermath of a fire in a New York City subway tunnel which took place near West 55th Street and Broadway on January 6, 1915

photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt driving through the three's tunnel

Photochrome print from 1900 of a Philadelphia row house where it was claimed Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag

It was developed in 1854 in response to both a recent cholera epidemic and chronic overcrowding in London cemeteries at the time,

Daily journeys would start here, where coffins would be loaded onto the train in a separate carriage from the living - pictured, the London terminal after it was wrecked by World War II bombing