Most Viewed Year 1897 - 27

This is a Bowery barroom. A tough girl comes in for a pail of beer. While the bartender is serving her, a loafer steals the free lunch and puts it in...

As a train comes to a halt, workers begin to unload the gravel it is transporting.

'The 'Nordland,' and 'Teutonic,' two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across...

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond...

A moving image of the docks of Liverpool. Lumière Catalogue No. 704.

A man is robbed of everything he's got and gets in trouble with the police about it.

A companion picture to No. 159 [THEATRE HAT]; showing how every one in an audience can get an uninterrupted view of the stage, when the ladies remove...

Master kisses maid behind a blanket on the clothes line and is seen by his wife.

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and...

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

Shot from a train as it leaves a station.

Short released in 1897.

Two men pull a practical prank on two victims.

Beirut: place cannons.

Carrara, Italy. A train loaded with marble exits a tunnel.

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

Phantom ride shot from the engine front as a steam train pulling away from Wormit station in Fife, crossing the Tay rail bridge and passing south...