Elevated railroad, New York / - movie film screenshot
Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th to 116th Street station. This section, with its reverse curv... More
71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff / - movie film screenshot
"Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wikoff. The picture shows many of th... More
Sandow motion picture - movie film screenshot
Strong-man Eugene (Eugen) Sandow poses in a long shot on a bare stage against a black background, wearing only tight trunks and laced sandals. He begins with his arms folded against his chest, looking off scree... More
Roosevelt's Rough Riders / motion picture
"A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by Troop "I," the famous regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front"--Biograph picture catalogue. H32832 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: American Mutoscope & Bio... More
![Atlantic City, N. J., 1896. Busses [horse-drawn carriages] leaving the railroad depot](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTYvMDEvMDEvYXRsYW50aWMtY2l0eS1uLWotMTg5Ni1idXNzZXMtaG9yc2UtZHJhd24tY2FycmlhZ2VzLWxlYXZpbmctdGhlLXJhaWxyb2FkLWRlcG90LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "Atlantic City, N. J., 1896. Busses [horse-drawn carriages] leaving the railroad depot")
Atlantic City, N. J., 1896. Busses [horse-drawn carriages] leaving the...
Photograph shows a caravan of horse-drawn carriages leaving the West Jersey Rail Road Station. Copyright 1896 by American Mutoscope Company.
General Wheeler and Secretary Alger /
"This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguished military men are seen overlooking the immense camp ground... More
Launch, U.S. battleship "Kentucky"
View from the James River of the launching of the battleship Kentucky at Newport News, Va. Built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the Kentucky is launched shortly after the U.S. battleship... More
Winchester Repeating Arms Co.. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...
Photograph shows men exiting brick building with sign "Winchester Repeating Arms Co." over archway.
Wounded soldiers embarking in row boats /
"This picture was taken after the Battle of Las Guaymas [i.e., Las Guásimas], and shows a large number of wounded soldiers embarking in a rowboat from an extemporized dock, on their way to the hospital ship "O... More
Panorama from the tower of Brooklyn Bridge /
The view was taken from the tower on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. As the film begins, the camera is looking southwest, towards the southern tip of Manhattan (the Battery). The camera pans very rapidly north... More
President Roosevelt and the Rough Riders /
From the Biograph picture catalogue: 29 feet. This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to his headquarters, where he dismo... More
"Teutonic" and "Nördland" - Public domain image of steamship
The "Nordland," and "Teutonic," two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across the Atlantic ocean. The dash of the water about their bows is s... More
McKinley and party / motion picture
"This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense ... More