[April 17th, 1924] The Japanese Ambassador Shouldn't Have Tried To Drive Them (Chicago Tribune cartoon).6d ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 19th, 1923] Group of People Surrounding Auto Wreck, Washington DC.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 29th, 1923] A Hundred Years Hence. Professor's Vision of Warfare. How We Shall Fight in A.D. 2023.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 1st, 1923] V.I. Lenin in Gorki. After the third stroke, from March 1923 on, he was barely able to make himself understood.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 20th, 1922] Ivor Novello, noted British actor and Composer of the beautiful ballad Keep the Home Fires Burning, photographed on his arrival in New York on the S. S. Olympic. He will spend some time with his mother, Mrs. Clara Novello Davies, and will also fill engagements in films here.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 13th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter, Chicago's answer to the Inquiring Photographer, asks people at the Hotel Sherman, What are people talking about today?1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 4th 1922] Woman explorer returns with Congo savage as bodyguard. He is called Congo and is shown here with Miss Simonton, performing an African jazz dance, to the tune of native African musical instruments.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 15th, 1924] The Inquiring Photographer in Los Angeles asks, What do you consider the greatest invention of modern times?2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 27th, 1919] A member of the state militia faces off against an African-American veteran during the 1919 Chicago Race Riot. July 27, 1919.5yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 21st, 1922] A group of 22 non-union strikebreakers were brutally murdered by a mob at the Southern Illinois Coal Company near Herrin, Illinois. Victims who weren't immediately shot were taken on a death march of several miles before being killed.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 8th, 1924] John D. Rockefeller marks his 84th birthday by handing out a nickel to Robert Irving Hunter, 2, who politely gives it back at first, after services at New Community Church in Westchester County.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 6th, 1922] California: Negro Turns White: C. L. Warren, San, Diego, California, a Negro who at the age of 55 years has turned completely white. The change started three years ago when white spots appeared over his entire body.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 3rd, 1922] Newport: Flapper Feature At Newport. Flappers in bathing suits among the rocks of Newport Beach.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 6th, 1921] A New York City daily newspaper, the New York World began its expose of the Ku Klux Klan. The series ran for 21 consecutive days, finishing on September 26, and was picked up by 15 major U.S. newspapers.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 2nd, 1921] The Crown Prince of Japan, Hirohito, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, June 2, 19213yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 16th, 1920] King George V shaking hands with World War One veterans prior to the football match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge in London. Tottenham Hotspur won 4-0.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 21st, 1920] Four London and South Western railwaymen retiring at Woking after 207 years service between them.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 3rd, 1922] World's champion high and fancy diver displays latest in bathing suits. Ida Schnall, the world's champion high and fancy diver and well known all around athlete posed exclusively today in the latest fashions which will be seen on the beaches this summer.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 16th, 1922] How The Americans May Influence Our Manners(from the British Sunday Pictorial)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 28th, 1923] Proposes To Stop Movie Race Slurs (from the Chicago Tribune)2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 31st, 1921] This is the way the mails are guarded in New York today as a result of last week's daring hold-up which netted the robbers more than $1,500,000 in cash, securities and jewels. Each postal truck carrying valuable mail is now escorted by a motorcycle guard2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 17th, 1922] When Wireless Becomes The Fashionable Excuse.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 18th, 1922] Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten were married at St Margaret's, Westminster, London in the society wedding of the year.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 19th, 1924] The Inquiring Photographer in Los Angeles asks people, Do you believe in the theory of evolution?2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 10th, 1923] Marguerite Alibert, a French socialite who had had an affair with the Prince of Wales during World War One, shot and killed her Egyptian husband of six months, Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, during an argument at their suite in London's Savoy Hotel.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 11th, 1922] Over 3 million dollars worth of drugs, consisting of great quantities of opium, heroin, cocaine, and drugs equipment, including pipes and hypodermic needles, confiscated by the police in the last 18 months, were dumped into the sewer or burned.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 26th, 1921] Woman's traditional costume, Wolkenstein in Groden (Selva di Val Gardena), Tyrol, Italy2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 10th, 1921] 'You must be photogenic from feet to head. Then you are allowed to have talent.' French actress Musidora2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 22nd, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, What would you buy first if you suddenly became rich?8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 3rd, 1923] Arrest of Bogoris, the main perpetrator of the attack on the Strasbourg Express, arrested at the gare de Sceaux.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 5th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer: Would you consider a man a Moll who assists his wife with the housework?9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 18th, 1923] German Fascisti Mobilize, from the New York Sunday News.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 7th, 1922] Fascisti Prepare To Control Italy. Mussolini Declares Their Real Government Must Displace the Present Cabinet. Coup In Rome Is Expected (New York Times)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 10th, 1923] Pancho Villa is crazy about playing the drums in a jazz outfit, and the little Filipino can really make the feet shuffle too. After a strenuous day of training, he nestles down into his place in the orchestra and forgets everything except the good time he is having.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 26th, 1923] Drop-waisted ankle length summer dress in multi-patterned material with three-quarter sleeves and elbow length gloves. Worn with a cloche hat decorated with a bow. One-bar shoes.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 7th, 1921] A neatly dressed young teacher presides over a class of local children in Marey, West Virginia. Many of the children are barefoot. Location: Sunset School, Marey, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 26th, 1923] Albert Leo Schlageter, 28, the first German Nazi martyr, was executed by a French Army firing squad for sabotaging a railroad track in Germany's French-occupied Ruhr region.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 18th, 1921] Madison Square Garden transformed into swimming pool scene in Tex Rickard's luxurious indoor swimming pool which was thrown open to the public.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 21st, 1924] Vladimir Lenin, the semi-retired founder and leader of the Soviet Union and the de facto leader of the USSR as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, died at his estate in Gorki at 18:50 hrs Moscow time following a stroke.3mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 5th, 1921] A huge crowd watches the match between Cardiff City and Chelsea.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 25th, 1919] Brother and sister pose with the Christmas tree with all their presents from Santa underneath.4yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 3rd, 1921] Injured and wounded men are being taken to hospital by National guardsmen after racially motivated riots, also known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, during which a mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 20th, 1923] A group of elderly men sitting with a sign which reads, London's Old Cabbies, A few Pensioners of the Cabdrivers Benevolent Association, Combined Ages 1010 Years.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 25th, 1922] Starting to Washington in Plane with Report of Board of Inquiry into Death of Six in Plane Crash at Mitchel Field. Photo shows Lieut. Eugene H. Barksdale as he hopped off from Mitchel Field, Mineola, L.I., this afternoon.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 8 1923] Died: Jack Trice, 21, Iowa State College football player, died of injuries sustained two days earlier when he was trampled by opposing players in a game against the University of Minnesota. Trice may have been targeted by his opponents during the game due to being African-American.7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 9th, 1920] Introducing the Peepul's Choice, cartoon from The Toiler4yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 6th, 1924] India: An epidemic of plague has claimed 25,000 victims. Plague In Punjab. 25,000 Deaths In The Month of March.2wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 30th, 1921] France, May 30, 1921, Prince Hirohito of Japan visiting France, The prince, disembarking in Le Havre, is saluted, before his departure for Paris, by the French commanding officer of the honour detachment.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 28th, 1921] Vladimir Lenin delivers a speech at a meeting of the third congress of the Comintern in the former Andreevsky Hall of the Kremlin. Moscow.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 16th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter in San Francisco asks, Should high school girls be spanked for smoking cigarettes?2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 19th, 1921] British Empire's Future. What Will It Be Like 100 Years Hence?2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 25 1923] In photo is shown Benito Mussolini, Italian Premier, in the new uniform of the Fascisti. He ranks as Honorary Corporal. Mussolini has often been likened to Napoleon, and expressly titled the photo The Two Eagles. An eagle was killed expressly and embalmed just for this picture.6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 10th 1922] Another Cabinet radio bug. Not content with having installed a complete radio outfit at his home, Sec. Herbert Hoover has also installed a radio set in his office, so that he is always in touch with the air and always able to pick up radio notes. Everybody's doing it.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 28th, 1921] Johns Hopkins University Hospital, in Baltimore, United States, announced that it would set maximum limits of $1,000 for a surgical operation and $35 per week for hospitalization.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 19th, 1923] Dramatic measures have been ordered by Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright in an effort to stem the flood of complaints he has received bearing upon the actions of men in crowded subway trains. Policewomen, young and attractive, will be used to discover offenders.5mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 30th, 1921] Aftermath of an auto accident in Washington DC.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 4th, 1923] Quake Dead Half Million. The President's Appeal for Help.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 23rd, 1922] Some race! Photo shows Essex Sedan fitted with rail wheels on the tracks of the Santa Fe R.R. The Essex will make the run from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Arizona, a distance of over 500 miles. The party in the Sedan expect to beat the time of the railroad.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 28th, 1921] Burial of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 11th, 1922] Daily Mirror cover with news of the arrest of Gandhi.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 2nd 1922] San Francisco, California: The family radio replaces the family Victrola. No more does the family gather in the parlor to enjoy the tunes of music from a Victrola. The present-day craze for radio places that novelty within the reach of all2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 18th, 1921] Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting Honourable Artillery Company Guard of Honour.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 21st, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Who do you think has done the most for the betterment of the world since the time of Christ?7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 19th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer: What do you think of the bare-armed dresses the girls are wearing now?9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 15th, 1923] Persia: Up to 20,000 were reported dead after an earthquake caused an avalanche that buried five villages.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 20th, 1921] Two ice skaters collide on the rink at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 21st, 1921] Hidayatullah, son of the Emir, with his attendant.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 24th, 1923] American silent crime melodrama film The Woman With Four Faces was released.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 27th 1922] New York's Unemployed Protest! Police reserves from five precincts flocked to Pearl and Centre Sts. today to prevent trouble during a demonstration by the city's unemployed.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 17th, 1922] Philadelphia's Smart Set at Annual Garden Fete. Miss Margaret Dallet at the Annual Garden Fete, held on the Clothier Estate at Wynnewood. The Garden Fete is the feature of the Philadelphia Social Season, and comprises a series of tableaux, pony and dog shows and fashion exhibition.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 12th, 1922] Ku Klux Klan Initiate at Miami. Winter visitors at Miami, Florida, got a real thrill the night of February 7th when 900 members of the Ku Klux suddenly appeared fully garbed on the golf links of the fashionable Miami Country Club.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 3rd, 1921] Seniors of the Wellesley Class of 1921 are arranged in remarkable precision so as to form 1921 on the occasion of their recent May Day festivities.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 12th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter from the Chicago Tribune asks people at the County Building, Do you believe in fortune telling or crystal gazing?1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 19th, 1921] Man posing with tusks to be used in billiard ball production.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 27th, 1922] Married Miscalculations. No.3.— The Affectionate Husband.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 18th, 1921] The Prince of Wales (centre), posing with the first tiger he ever shot on his tour of Nepal.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 18th, 1920] The grandstands are packed for a Braves-Dodgers game.4yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 10th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, Is life worth while?9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 22nd, 1921] New Parliament of Northern Ireland meets at Belfast City Hall and is opened by George V of the United Kingdom, making a speech (drafted by Jan Smuts) calling for reconciliation in Ireland.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 30th, 1923] A baby in its cot on a ledge outside a window in Bloomsbury, London.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 9th 1922] An Army private comes to attention and salutes as he hears the Star Spangled Banner sent wireless over a Marvel receiving radio set with a horn attached to throw the sound, New York.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 17th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter in Chicago asks, Lloyd George recently asked for a typically American dinner. What would you serve him at your home?6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 17th, 1921] Germany: the mark continues to plummet; £1 is worth 720M.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 5th, 1923] Coat with embroidered panels on sleeves and a fur trim collar and cuffs.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 25th, 1922] Berlin: demonstration in the Berlin Lustgarten after the murder of Walther Rathenau.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4th, 1921] The value of Germany's Deutsche Mark dropped to an all-time low of almost 1/4 of a U.S. penny, with one dollar being the equivalent of 243 Marks.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 3rd, 1923] Alex Morrison, American trick golf champion has to be sure accurate when it comes to timing his stroke. He is shown demonstrating by knocking a ball off the wrist watch of Miss Sidney Nelson, artist's model and winner of the bathing beauty contest at Atlantic City, last summer.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 9th, 1921] Moscow: Lenin appeals to the international proletariat for famine relief.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 18th, 1923] 76 Die in Fire Panic; Exploding Lamp Turns School Into Inferno.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
Neolithic house at Catal Huyuk, ancient Turkey [3000 × 1833]7yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn
[June 2nd, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter from the Chicago Tribune asks men, What is your idea of a regular girl?11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 20th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks men at the Home for Aged and Disabled Railroad Men, What was the most exciting experience in your railroad career?8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 19th, 1921] U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Dillingham Immigration Bill into law, limiting annual immigration from individual nations to no more than the number of people who had immigrated to America from those nations in 1910.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 16th, 1922] Portrait of a Socialite Woman (Original Caption) New York, New York: Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue. Evelyn McManus.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
