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

Lucky Strike billboards to the Chicago railway track which opened up travel to all in Chicago in 1900

Little has changed but if you glance closely a lady in period dress poses under the Arch Rock in Santa Monica in this postcard from circa 1888-1905

Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California stars in this postcard from 1902

Holidaymakers at the turn of the century could stay at accommodation such as Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon, Arizona which was snapped in this postcard from 1905

Illustrating the modcons and comforts of the age, this postcard of the interior of Hyatt Chalet Motel from 1964

A neon sign invites guests to the Park Plaza Motel. Vintage autos are parked at the entrance

Pakistan famous cricketer, Salim Malik, Waqar Youni and Wasim Akram

As well as building a relationship with the Afghans he encountered, the amateur photographer set out to document their way of life

An Afghan military band stands wearing matching brown uniforms, surrounded by coloured flags

An elephant drinks out of a bottle at the Benson's Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire, which opened in 1926

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

People inflating a hydrogen balloon on the roof of the John Wanamaker store on Broadway and Tenth Avenue, planning to travel to Philadelphia in 1910

Passengers on board the Queen Mary admire the New York skyline as the ocean liner docks in Manhattan at dawn in 1939

Overview of the Gaillard Cut, formerly Culebra Cut, an excavation deep into Culebra Mountain for the construction of the Panama Canal