[April 18th, 1924] The Inquiring Photographer in Los Angeles asks, Do you think we will ever have a woman president?6d ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 1st, 1924] Adolf Hitler is sentenced to prison for five years due to his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. He was released after only 8 months.3wk ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 23rd, 1923] When We All Have Pocket Telephones (reprint of a cartoon originally from 1919).1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 4, 1923] Anti-Flirt Week begins with the purpose of protecting young women from unwanted male attention.1yr ⋅ B_C_S ⋅ 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
[November 1, 1922] The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, declares the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate, an entity which had existed since 1299.1yr ⋅ Just_me2196 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 6, 1920] A one-year-old Sicilian girl dies of the Spanish Flu and, instead of burying her, her parents decide to embalm her and place her on display using the most modern-possible technology. Therefore, she is believed to be the best-preserved mummy in history.3yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4th, 1922] Tutankhamun's tomb is discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.1yr ⋅ Ozikk ⋅ 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
[November 19, 1922] Buster Keaton's short film Day Dreams is released1yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 27, 1922] Audrey Munson, America's first supermodel, attempts suicide at 30. She survives but spends the rest of her life in an asylum. She died in 1996 at the age of 104.2yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ 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
[1922, April 16th] Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row2yr ⋅ MinLetrbl ⋅ 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
[May 5th, 1920] Lenin speaks to Red Army troops leaving for the front at Moscow’s Sverdlov Square4yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 14th, 1923] The Duke of York - future British King George VI and father of Queen Elizabeth II - gets engaged to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.1yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 10, 1921] Buster Keaton's short film The Haunted House is released3yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ 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.2wk ⋅ 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
[July 23rd, 1922] Anthropology professor Ferdinand Shuler predicts what New York City will be like 100 years into the future.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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 18, 1922] The NSDAP, also known as the Nazi Party, a far-right German nationalist party based in Munich, reaches 10,000 members, becoming a legitimate force in German politics. Many new members have joined as a result of Benito Mussolini’s success in Italy.1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 16, 1920] Szmul Rzeszewski, an 8-year-old boy, makes world headlines when he defeats 20 challengers in Paris, including some of the best chess players on earth, simultaneously.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ 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
[December 17th, 1922] Albert Einstein plays the piano during his visit to Japan. He was also a good violinist1yr ⋅ SigmaSamurai ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 6, 1922] Chief John Smith (likely born between 1822 and 1826, though allegedly as early as 1784) died. He was an Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian who lived his entire life in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area, and was reputed to have been 137 years old when he died of pneumonia.2yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ 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
[January 31, 1923] Vice Pres. Coolidge and House Speaker Gillett exercising in House gym. Jan. 31, 1923. LoC photograph.1yr ⋅ DyersvilleStLambert ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 15th, 1922] The Easterner's Idea of the Map of the U.S. from the Chicago Tribune.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Ocetober 4, 1922] The value of the German mark continued its fall and dropped to less than 1/20th of an American penny, as the exchange rate closed at 2,127.33 marks to a U.S. dollar.1yr ⋅ Ok-Opportunity9973 ⋅ 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
[April 15th, 1921] Good Morning magazine mocks President Harding’s stance on taxing the wealthy3yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 17, 1922] Betty White was born. (Idk if this is allowed on this sub but it is pretty cool to think about - also it goes without saying that this picture is not from 1/17/1922)2yr ⋅ Nathans_Bikeapedia ⋅ 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
[March 19, 1923] George Herbert, financial backer leading to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, suffers a severe mosquito bite which eventually takes his life. “The curse of the mummy” enters newspaper headlines.1yr ⋅ B_C_S ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 13th, 1922] Woman seated at a soda fountain table pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane.2yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ 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
[March 18th, 1923] Miss Elsie May of Astoria, Long Island has a bone to pick with the Inquiring Photographer's questions about gender.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[March 31, 1923] The Ottawa Senators defeat the Edmonton Eskimos to win the Stanley Cup1yr ⋅ Fart_Milk ⋅ 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 22, 1921] A Confederate veteran, shot in the eye 58 years ago in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., finds himself choking and coughs up the bullet. Willis Meadows, 78, is in good health afterward.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ 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 16, 1920] After finding the bricklaying business too full of ups and downs, this amazing young girl decided to take a shot at iron girdering for a change. She is Miss 'Collie' Collier, a reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner.4yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ 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
[November 22nd, 1922] U.S. President Warren G. Harding defied racist opponents and nominated Walter L. Cohen, an African-American Republican to the office of Controller of Customs of the Port of New Orleans1yr ⋅ Gjnglobal1 ⋅ 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
