Visions of the Past
Historical Street View — located photographs, paintings and views of the past. Choose where you stand and when, and walk through the world as earlier eyes saw it.
Photography reaches back only to the late 18th century, but people have been making located views of the world for far longer. Visions of the Past gathers those views — photographs, paintings, engravings — and lets you walk among them on a map, choosing both where you stand and when.
It is the public face of the Historical Street View project; the back-end that
serves the located views, hsv-api, is listed under Tools.