Most Viewed Year 1899 - 14

"This is a very remarkable picture, showing Union Square, New York City, during the great March blizzard of 1899. The camera was stationed at the...

The busy Frederick Street in Berlin.

Showing the chief and his fire wagon, chemical engine, water tower, and several three-horse engines at full speed on their way to the fire, Buffalo,...

A monkey and his trainer do acrobatics in a small enclosure.

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

An excellent picture of this popular excursion boat, taken on the second day of the International Cup Race Oct. 5, 1899. The racing yacht 'Columbia'...

Actuality footage.

Soldiers play cards and jeer as shells burst around them.

A view from the rear of a ship; A hypnotic study of the wake of a ship at sea.

Showing the employees leaving the factory at noon.

The funeral procession of President Félix Faure of France through Paris, 23rd February 1899.

A woman barber is putting the finishing touches on a customer, who is so pleased with the operation that he puts his arms around her and kisses her....

Procession of suspiciously neat troops. This film has long been recorded in the NFTVA records as being of the Boer War, however it is probably film...

Two grotesque minstrels are seen playing beneath a fair lady's window. She appears, and encourages one of them. The disappointed minstrel thereupon...

A mounted black horse gallops.

Thérèse Rentz rides a bay horse.

An actuality film of the P&O troopship Nubia departing Southampton for the Boer War in South Africa on 21st October 1899. War had been declared on...

Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives in Constantinople.

In this spirited and suggestive film, an aggressive young man is drenched in rich, high-protein comeuppance, after he attempts to tell a dairymaid...