[April 18th, 1924] The Inquiring Photographer in Los Angeles asks, Do you think we will ever have a woman president?1wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 23rd, 1923] When We All Have Pocket Telephones (reprint of a cartoon originally from 1919).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 26th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter asks men, Would you marry a woman taller than yourself?1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 21st, 1923] Abandoned Babies A Common Sight in Berlin Nowadays. Because so many parents are unable to buy food or clothing for their offspring, they leave them for the police to find and for the state to rear. Here we see a Berlin police officer about to pick up a deserted infant.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Nov 5th 1922] Posing with Lois Wilson in this photo is Crow Chief, 116 year-old Arapahoe Indian, who, it has just been discovered is an ardent movie fan. The paramount studio sent a company to Camp Cruze, Utah, to take some scenes, and Crow Chief, who lives nearby, was an enthusiastic spectator.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 24th, 1923] Photographic portrait of Bessie Coleman, first black woman aviatrix.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 16th, 1921] Proper date for the How you think you look cartoon as published in Judge magazine3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 10th, 1923] Died: Wilhelm Rontgen (spelled Roentgen outside of Germany), 77, German physicist who was the first to discover and reproduce x-rays and, in 1914, won the first Nobel Prize in Physics.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 2nd, 1922] The baseball champion, Babe Ruth, posing at his Sudbury, Massachusetts, farm with his wife and baby daughter, Dorothy.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 12th, 1922] Christmas mail arrives at Paddington station in London.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 23rd, 1922] The Shame of America: Full page ad taken out in the New York Times by the NAACP in support of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 1st, 1922] Eighteen year old inventor, H Day wearing headphones attached to a wireless under his top hat.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 2nd, 1922] Girls rifle team, Central High, Washington, DC.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 31st, 1922] The American Actress Alice White Listening To The Clock Strike The Midnight Hour In The United States On December 31, 1922.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 30th, 1922] Benito Mussolini arrives in Rome from Milan. He becomes Prime Minister of Italy, the youngest (39) in the history of the country, replacing Luigi Facta.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 8th, 1923] A resident whose house was destroyed and took up residence in a hollow tree, Alasehir, Turkey.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 4th, 1923] A woman out for her morning run on the latest British invention for home exercise, London, England.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 3rd, 1924] In Chicago, 24-year-old Beulah Annan shot the man with whom she had been having an affair in her apartment. Her story inspired the play (and musical) Chicago.3wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 21st, 1923] 3/21/1923-New York, NY: The lion-faced man arrives from Bremen. His name is Lionel Bilrouki. He will be shown with Ringling Brothers at Madison Square Garden, starting March 24.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 6th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter asks, Why do the majority of married men object to their wives bobbing their hair?1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 7th, 1923] Ice skaters enjoy the Reflecting Pool outside the Lincoln Memorial.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 5th, 1922] Four prize winners in annual beauty show, Washington Bathing Beach, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Gay Gatley, Eva Fridell, Anna Neibel, Iola Swinnerton.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 14th, 1923] National Socialists of the Hitlerites faction parade through the streets of Munich as their followers increase. The Swastika emblem carried by one of the paraders bears the inscription Germany arise and is a symbol of good luck.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 2nd, 1923] Charlie Chaplin and Pola Negri after announcing their betrothal.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 22nd, 1922] The Rival Billionaires cartoon from the Chicago Tribune.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 4th, 1923] Group of men of all ages enjoy the beach at Coney Island in mid-winter, New York.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 30th, 1923] Photo is of Birdie Reeve, 16 year old typist of Chicago who holds the World's record of 29,000 strokes an hour. A master of the dictionary- she has a vocabulary of 64,000 words and clicks them off on the keys using only two fingers on each hand.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 22nd, 1923] Paris: An editor of the far-rightAction Francaise, Marius Plateau, is shot dead at the League's headquarters by the young anarchist Germaine Berton.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 17th, 1922] Cabaret dancers from Murray's Restaurant in New York, charged with being indecently dressed and participating in an immoral dance.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 23rd, 1923] Klansmen at event at Crystal Pool, Seattle, March 23, 1923.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 24th, 1922] Masked women, members of the new Dixie Protestant Women's Political League, an order closely modelled after the Ku Klux Klan, which has been organized in Atlanta, GA., and chartered in the courts of Fulton County.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 12th, 1922] Edmonton Triplets: Lily Smith in the maternity ward after giving birth to three babies.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 26th, 1923] Died: Sarah Bernhardt, 78, French stage and film actress, died in Paris, five days after she had collapsed at home while rehearsing for the filming of a Sacha Guitry movie, La Voyant.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 11th, 1922] Cage for carrying birds and mice by rescue parties in mines.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 1st, 1923] From Mary To America: A happy New Year, 1923, writes the Sweetheart of the Films, Mary Pickford.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 9th, 1922] March On Rome. Fascist troops burn Socialist literature following entry into Rome.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 15th, 1922] The Easterner's Idea of the Map of the U.S. from the Chicago Tribune.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 19th, 1922] An Unresponsive World (Chicago Tribune cartoon)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 2nd, 1922] Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, head of government of the Russian Soviet Republic, and Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Gorki, in September 1922. Photograph supposedly taken by Vladimir Lenin's sister Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 18th, 1922] When Parents Are Punished For Their Children's Defects.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 4th, 1922] Pilot Bessie Coleman of Chicago, the first female African American aviator in the world, receiving a bouquet from Captain Edison C McVey in his uniform as Aeronautical Instructor of the UAL at Curtiss Field, Long Island.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 9th, 1922] Exotic dancer Princess Nyota Nyoka arrives in New York after being discovered in Paris by Florence Ziegfeld. She will perform with his Ziegfelds' Follies.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4th, 1922] British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 16th, 1923] A large delegation of Pueblo Indians arrived in Washington recently from New Mexico to plead with Congress and the public against the destruction, as they allege, of the very lives of their people, through enforced starvation and disease.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 31st, 1922] Fascist leader Benito Mussolini took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy along with his cabinet, as he was sworn in by King Victor Emmanuel III following the resignation of Luigi Facta.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 3, 1923] Washington, DC: Photo is of Jackson Barnett, the world's richest American Indian, and his white wife. They were photographed recently in Washington where Mr. Barnett arranged for giving away one million dollars to keep his wealth from falling into the hands of designing persons.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 27th, 1923] Boy Scouts camped out in the store window of Abercrombie & Fitch as part of their recruitment drive for new scout members, New York.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 11th, 1922] Babe Ruth is shown in the midst of a portion of the 5,000 boys who had gathered to see the mighty one of the baseball diamond.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 3rd, 1922] If Husbands And Wives Agreed To Change Jobs (Sunday Pictorial, London).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 19th, 1923] French troops in Germany during the occupation of the Ruhr.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 21st, 1922] The German Mussolini, A Man Worth Watching (Article on Hitler from the Liverpool Post and Mercury)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 1st, 1922] As We Must Seem To Our Less Fortunate Neighbors (Chicago Tribune cartoon).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 15th, 1922] Vladimir I. Lenin. Politician, with his nephew Viktor in the park of his house in Gorky.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 29th, 1922] Another step towards the equalization of the sexes. Girls, here's something you can do as easy as brother Bill. Carrying regular walking canes is the latest among the fair sex of New York, if this picture is to be taken seriously.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 10th, 1922] Photo of General John T. Thompson demonstrating to an interested crowd of officials his new invention, the anti-bandit gun, an automatic rifle weighing a mere seven pounds and firing 120 shots per minute.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 4th, 1922] African American couple, the man standing with his hands on his hips and wearing suit, woman sitting on a bench and wearing a large brimmed hat, posing for photographs at a photographic studio.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 12th, 1923] On the platform of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, NJ on Sunday night, the Exalted Cyclops, the Rev. Parris E Greenly, minister of the Church, and the Kleagle, with thirty-eight other hooded klansmen scattered among the congregation.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 28th, 1922] A miner reads the last message written by one of 47 miners trapped in a mining accident in the Argonaut gold mine in Jackson, California. The message, written with a carbide lamp on the face of a wall inside the mine, says, Three o'clock, gas getting strong.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 13th, 1922] Members of American white supremacist secret society the Ku Klux Klan ceremonially initiate a new recruit at a meeting.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 5th, 1922] Making Herself Beautiful (Daily Mirror, London).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 27th, 1922] One of the last horse-drawn fire engines, Company 205 of the New York Fire Department, races along a city street.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 4th, 1922] Preparing for the Concert. Students apply their make-up for the concert at Dulwich.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 29th, 1923] Demonstration procession of children and young people during the first party conference of the NSDAP in Munich.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 7th, 1923] Awaiting Them. Chicago Tribune cartoon shows hatred and revenge awaiting the French and German coming generations.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 22nd, 1922] The Westerner's Idea of the Map of the U.S. (Chicago Tribune).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 25th, 1923] A General view of the boardwalk at Atlantic City on Palm Sunday showing the immense crowds that enjoyed the wonderful spring weather and ocean breeze.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 1st, 1922] Armed I.R.A. rebels in the streets during the Battle of Dublin.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 23rd, 1922] Robed members of the Ku Klux Klan at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Chicago.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 1st, 1922] October 1922: Radio enthusiasts receiving concert broadcasts on radio apparatus and relaying them through a loudspeaker and headphones.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 22nd, 1922] Left to right, Marjorie Whittington and Dolores Rouse of the Ziegfeld Follies declared by leading artists to possess arms and backs that constitute all that makes for beauty, charm and grace.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 5th, 1922] At the age of 61, famous sharpshooter and entertainer Annie Oakley shot a record 98 out of 100 clay targets from a distance of 16 yards.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 11th, 1923] Women's football team at Stade Pershing, Paris.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 8th, 1924] Franklin D. Roosevelt, prominent Democrat of New York state and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is caught unawares while painting chairs on his yacht in Biscayne Bay, where he is enjoying the winter, far from the whirl of Washington politics.1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 18th, 1923] Photo shows the arrival of Lord Carnarvon, noted British Egyptologist (left, wearing grey hat), with his daughter, (holding flowers), arriving at Luxor station. From here they proceeded to the tomb of Tutankhamun to examine the rich contents.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 28th, 1922] Miss Evelyn Law, an 18 year old Miss playing with the famous Follies, is soon to go to London, where she is to give a private performance of her terpsichorean artistry for H.R.H. King George and members of the Royal Family. Miss Law is able to kick two feet above her head.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 9th, 1923] A party of Bostonians visiting the gun captured by the British at Bunkers Hill in 1775 which stands in the parade ground of Quebec Citadel.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 21st, 1922] Anna (left) and Lilly Chow, of San Francisco's Chinatown, listen to the radio together.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 30th, 1922] A democratic youth organisation gathered outside the castle, Berlin, for a 'No More War' demonstration on the eighth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 15th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter asks, Do you believe the Japanese should be prohibited from entering the United States?1wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 14th, 1923] A dance marathon in Baltimore was stopped by police after 53 hours. (Dancers at a 1923 dance marathon)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 2nd, 1922] Texas: A Wedding Via Radio. At left, Miss Mable Brady, the bride. At the right, John H. Stone, the groom. They were married via Radio at different stations in Dallas, Texas. The minister who performed the ceremony was at a third station.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 10th, 1922] Vaudeville star Jeanette Hackett being cured of neuralgia by the 'zone therapy' of William S Thompson, known as 'Thompson the Egyptian', where she holds an aluminum comb and he exerts pressure on nerves in her back, New York.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 5th, 1922] Mothers and their babies Christmas shopping in London.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 23rd, 1923] In 1923, the Hollywood Association started a campaign to expel the Japanese from their community. Hollywood resident, Mrs. B. G. Miller, points to an anti-Japanese sign on her house. Signs like these are prominent throughout this community.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 11th, 1923] This is the first and only known photograph in existance of Adolph Hitler, the much talked of leader of the German National Socialist Party. The photo, an exclusive one, shows clearly the lines of a strong countenance and also a sturdy body.7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 22nd, 1922] The Big Four leaders of Europe discussing reparations and allied debts after World War I. Premiers Poincare, France; Bonar Law, Great Britain; Benito Mussolini, Italy; and Theunis, Belgium (l. to r.).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 28th, 1922] With the march on Rome by thousands of fascist “black shirts” their leader, Benito Mussolini, forces the Italian government to resign. Two days later, Mussolini receives from King Victor Emmanuel III. the task of forming a government.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 22nd, 1922] Automobile girls hit trail for Far West. Helen and Jean Douglas, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Douglas of Atlanta, Georgia, who have started on an automobile trip across the continent to Seattle, Washington.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 18th, 1922] Santa Claus tells a story to three young children at the Stadium Club.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 20th, 1922] The English Christmas: Past and Present— No.2.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 29th, 1921] Adolf Hitler is elected party chairman of the NSDAP by the general assembly. He gains dictatorial power and sometimes uses violence to propagate political goals. (Hitler in 1921)2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 17th, 1923] Dr. Emile Coue, French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 25th, 1922] A British family listens to the election results on a large radio in their sitting room. England, UK.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 11th, 1923] French soldiers in Essen during the occupation of the Ruhr district by French troops.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 16th, 1922] Chicago: Enemy Of Crooks. A new system of police boxes for either fire or police calls is being installed in Chicago. A green light at night and a gong in the daytime will call the officer on beat to the box.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 10th, 1922] Three Louisiana College Gals (Students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Joyce Merritt, Regina Negrotto, Irma Simmons.)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 19th, 1922] The latest Flapper Fad in Chicago, is an Orney Chain worn above the knee in the place where Grandma wore a garter. Decoration can be the only excuse for the chain though. Surely the socks never reach that high.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 23rd, 1921] Sarah Doherty poses beside her conical cake on her 100th birthday.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 23rd, 1922] The Keeper of the Gates (Chicago Tribune cartoon).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
