Most Viewed Year 1898 - 17

A British Mutoscope & Biograph Company production

A single-camera position film of a merry-go-round at an unidentified location. The carousel makes about ten revolutions during the film.

If you are looking for golf history then Musselbugh Links is the place to start: it's been spoiling good walks since Charles II sat on the throne....

Geisha performance, with umbrella and fans, in Kyoto.

Félicien Trewey mimes Pierrot being harassed in his sleep by a fly.

"The fashionable set is parading in the park, after church. The concourse is composed of all nationalities, including several groups of pretty...

As a woman waits outside of a window, a man rides up on horseback, and she jumps on behind him. As the two of them ride off to elope, one of the...

Clips from a football match between Blackburn Rovers V. West Bromwich in 1898.

This picture of the pride of the United States Navy was made on the occasion of the Peace Jubilee in New York City...

Acrobatics involving a couple of clowns and a dog trainer.

Panorama cable car of Mont-Dore.

A canine serpentine dance.

A ‘phantom ride’ taken from the front of a train passing through the Devon town of Barnstaple.

A religious procession during the Holy Week in Seville, Spain.

Anonymously directed is Karina (1902), less than half a minute of a vaudeville can-can dancer. She's shown in voluminous skirt hanging to the floor,...

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...

A most excellent picture of the grim old fortress which stands at the entrance of Havana Harbor...

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

Shows the despatch boat of the 'New York Journal' steaming through the water, having aboard the war correspondents.

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.