1340 best r/100yearsago images on Pholder | [May 5th, 1920] Lenin speaks to Red Army troops leaving for the front at Moscow’s Sverdlov Square

[May 5th, 1920] Lenin speaks to Red Army troops leaving for the front at Moscow’s Sverdlov Square

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[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.

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[January 12, 1920] Within Our Gates, director Oscar Micheaux's response to the racist message of The Birth of a Nation, is released. Today it is believed to be the earliest surviving film made by an African-American director

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[September 12, 1919] As an army political agent, Adolf Hitler was sent to report on an emerging far-right group, the German Workers' Party (later renamed the Nazi Party). Finding he agreed with their nationalist, anti-Semitic beliefs, he joins the obscure group as its seventh member.

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[July 27, 1920] Sailing into Yokohama Harbor, Japan

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[October 6, 1920] Bolshevik Premier Vladimir Lenin photographed in his office at the Kremlin.

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[November 4, 1919] The Old Treadmill, The Washington Times, cartoon.

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[Oct. 20, 1918] Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was released

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[March 12, 1920] Taking the Cream! The Evening World, Cartoon.

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[September 16, 1920] Wall Street bombing - colorized

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[August 13, 1919] Sgt. Stubby, famed American war dog, returns home.

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[December 25th, 1919] Brother and sister pose with the Christmas tree with all their presents from Santa underneath.

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[August 6, 1919] “With the latest guns, the Boston Police will be ready to face the Reds with severity should they try anything.”

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[July 23, 1920] Piccadilly Circus, London

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[March 23rd, 1919] Mussolini founds Fascist Party

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[July 7, 1920] Warren G. Harding gives his first speech as Republican candidate for president, from his front porch to a crowd of Marion, Ohio residents. He says “government needs a return to normality, rather than a one-man government ruled by a super man.”

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[September 11, 1920] Still raining

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[July 22, 1920] American multimillionaire businessman William K. Vanderbilt dies. He was 70.

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[October 5 1919] Enzo Ferrari, an Italian car mechanic and engineer, enters his first race. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not great. He won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Some say he cared too much for the sports cars he drove and could never ruin an engine in order to win.

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[March 5, 1919] Comic strip by W.K. Haselden, as published in the Daily Mirror on March 5, 1919, accurately predicts the future nightmares of cell phones.

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[July 28, 1920] Clara Neptune, Indian elder, at a village display during Maine centennial celebrations.

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[August 9, 1920] Miss Mannix, daughter of archbishop Daniel Mannix, milking a cow on the family farm in County Cork, Ireland. Bishop Mannix has recently been banned indefinitely from stepping foot in Ireland as the British government considers him a dangerous revolutionary.

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[April 8, 1920] The Chicago Post Office has adopted roller skates for its clerks as they enable them to work more rapidly, thereby saving valuable time. Photo shows two clerks with skates handling parcel post.

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[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.

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[April 12th, 1920] Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the 'Red Napoleon', is photographed

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[February 6, 1920] Police Officer helps woman through blinding snow during record blizzard in Boston.

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[July 9th, 1920] Introducing the Peepul's Choice, cartoon from The Toiler

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[January 15, 1919] 'The Boston Molassacre' occurred when tank containing molasses exploded creating a deadly 15' tall wave of molasses.

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[June 6, 1920] Suffragists with a banner ready for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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[August 27, 1920] Heavy traffic at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Griswold Street, Detroit.

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[February 13, 1919] Sgt. Henry Johnson of the 369th Infantry Regiment (The Harlem Hellfighters) after being awarded the Croix du Guerre for gallantry

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[July 16, 1920] “Shoe city.” The footwear section and its salesmen at Hahn’s Department Store, Washington, DC.

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[March 25, 1920] Excavation for the Reflecting Pool at the US Capital. Work on the new Lincoln Memorial grounds is underway. Excavating for the big mirror lake.

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[October 7, 1920] The volcano Popcatépetl, in Tlaxcala, Mexico (just east of Mexico City) erupts. Surrounding communities evacuate.

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[March 2 1920] A man sprays the inside of a London General Omnibus Co bus with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic, London

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[April 8, 1920] On a visit to Hawaii, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) becomes the first member of the British royal family to try surfing

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[November 13, 1918] The British enter Constantinople. It’s the first time a non-Muslim Army has been in the city since 1453.

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[May 4, 1919] Over 3000 students from universities in Beijing gather in front of Tiananmen to protest the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

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[January 1, 1920] The first front page of the New York Times for 1920.

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[April 10th, 1920] A section of the crowd at Stamford Bridge for the football match between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday.

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[March 23, 1920] Still raining.

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[August 5, 1920] Popular music star Al Jolson releases a campaign song for Republican Presidential candidate Warren G. Harding: “Harding, You’re The Man For Us.”

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[September 21, 1919] 84 Years Old Civil War Veteran of Philadelphia, Wearing at the Fifty-third G. A. R. Reunion at Columbus, Ohio, the Exact Equipment with which He Marched Away to the War with the 71st Pennsylvania Regiment in 1861

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[February 9, 1919] an amputee soldier of “the Harlem Hellfighters” (369th Infantry Regiment) at his his Regiment’s welcome home parade

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[August 16, 1919] Observation deck on airship R. 33

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[August 4, 1920] A curfew is imposed across Munster, Ireland after Sinn Fein radicals cause trouble across the region, disrupting British Army operations there.

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[July 15, 1919] An unidentified couple posed for a photo just after getting engaged on July 15, 1919.

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[August 10, 1920] Swiss rower Max Schmid immediately after winning the single scull event at European rowing championships in Mâcon, France

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[September 30th, 1919] Hollywood: Harold Lloyd victim of a gag that misfired

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[January 3, 1920] Saturday Evening Post

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[March 5, 1920] This is a cat. Lots of rats here.

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[November 3, 1918] A BEF soldier comforts a wounded Belgian baby whose parents were killed by a German shell

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[December 22, 1919] The Christmas Spirit, Evening Star, cartoon.

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[December 14, 1919] As more and more British soldiers are killed in Ireland the military start fortifying their barracks

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[December 10, 1919] Autochrome picture of French Senegalese soldiers standing to attention under an Armenian flag, in Cilicia, Turkey. Probably during the short-lived Armenian Autonomous Zone when the Allies were trying to set up a home for refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide

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[May 13th, 1920] La Targette, France

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[May 21, 1919] The House of Representatives votes 304-89 in favor of approving the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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[March 15th, 1920] White House Photographers. Portrait of still and motion picture cameramen as they wait to photograph the President outside the White House, Washington DC, March 15, 1920.

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[May 25 1919] Lenin on Red Square in Moscow during Vsevobuch celebrations - Photo: Nappelbaum. Colour by Klimbim

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[October 8, 1919] The Bodensee airship lands in Stockholm, the only landing of a zeppelin in Sweden

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[September 18, 1919] Thousands of trucks abandoned by the Americans in France

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[March 29, 1920] A light cold, that's all.

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[October 1st, 1920] Charles Ponzi was indicted on 86 counts of mail fraud.

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[July 30, 1917] 100 years ago today my great grandparents bought this 80 acre farm in central Michigan. About half of their 509 descendants were able to attend the centennial celebration this afternoon.

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[February 18, 1920] Getting fat.

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[June 15, 1919] An eleven-year-old Frida Kahlo (7/06/1907–7/13/1954) is captured in portrait by her photographer father Guillermo Kahlo (10/26/1871–4/14/1941), who titled the photo “Frida Kahlo, June 15, 1919.” (Museo Frida Kahlo)

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[September 9th, 1919] President Wilson smiles from a train in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 9, 1919, during a train trip across the country to promote the League of Nations. The trip proved too exhausting for Wilson, and he suffered a stroke soon after returning to Washington.

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[June 23, 1919] This picture by Cartoonist Bob Satterfield is printed on at least three June 23, 1919 papers

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[January 16th, 1919] Berlin revolutionary leaders murdered

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[June 2, 1919] After having abandoned his first wife Mileva Maric and two children, Albert Einstein remarries with Elsa Löwenthal, his double cousin, on June 2, 1919. Indeed, their two mothers, Pauline and Fanny, were sisters, while their two fathers were first cousins.

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[February 11, 1919] Egyptians protest against British rule in Cairo. Note that one carries an American flag.

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[November 7, 1918] Wallstreet, New York City, New York

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[November 12, 1918] My great grandmother's diary

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[April 11, 1919] In Lens, France, a married couple living in the cellar of their former home, which is in complete ruins. (Library of Congress)

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[November 11th, 1918] Cheering crowds on a London bus greet the signing of the Armistice, 11 November 1918. At last the war was over- and in time for Christmas, though four years too late to save 10 million lives.

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[January 7, 1919] a Sparticist machinegun position atop the Brandenburg gate

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[May 3rd, 1920] A worker at the Baltic Exchange in London, the centre of the ship chartering business.

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[February 27, 1920] We expect rain any day

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[June 19th, 1920] Vladimir Lenin at the second Comintern congress in Uritski Palace (Uritsky / Uritskovo). Petrograd , Russia, on 19th June 1920.

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[September 17th, 1920] Wall Street bombing explosion. Sash weights which were used as shrapnel for the bomb

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[4 Feb. 1920] U.S. businessman Ohio Columbus (called O.C.) Barber (b. 20 April 1841) died. He was called America's Match King because of his controlling interest in the Diamond Match Company which had 85% of the market in 1881. By 1894 his manufacturing plant produced 250 million matches a day.

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[February 25, 1920] There are several houses here. Want one?

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