[January 23rd, 1923] When We All Have Pocket Telephones (reprint of a cartoon originally from 1919).3d ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 16th, 1921] Proper date for the How you think you look cartoon as published in Judge magazine1yr ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ 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 1299.3mo ⋅ Just_me2196 ⋅ 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 104.8mo ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4th, 1922] Tutankhamun's tomb is discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.3mo ⋅ Ozikk ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 5th, 1920] Lenin speaks to Red Army troops leaving for the front at Moscow’s Sverdlov Square2yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[1922, April 16th] Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row10mo ⋅ MinLetrbl ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 10, 1921] Buster Keaton's short film The Haunted House is released2yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 2nd, 1922] The baseball champion, Babe Ruth, posing at his Sudbury, Massachusetts, farm with his wife and baby daughter, Dorothy.1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 24th, 1923] Photographic portrait of Bessie Coleman, first black woman aviatrix.2d ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 19, 1922] Buster Keaton's short film Day Dreams is released2mo ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 1st, 1922] Eighteen year old inventor, H Day wearing headphones attached to a wireless under his top hat.9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 15th, 1921] Good Morning magazine mocks President Harding’s stance on taxing the wealthy1yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 12th, 1922] Christmas mail arrives at Paddington station in London.1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ 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)1yr ⋅ Nathans_Bikeapedia ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 23rd, 1922] Anthropology professor Ferdinand Shuler predicts what New York City will be like 100 years into the future.6mo ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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.6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 2nd, 1922] Girls rifle team, Central High, Washington, DC.3mo ⋅ 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.7mo ⋅ 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.3mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 13th, 1922] Woman seated at a soda fountain table pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane.1yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ 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, 1922.3wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ 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.1wk ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 22nd, 1922] The Rival Billionaires cartoon from the Chicago Tribune.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 15th, 1922] The Easterner's Idea of the Map of the U.S. from the Chicago Tribune.7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 4th, 1923] A woman out for her morning run on the latest British invention for home exercise, London, England.3wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 8th, 1923] A resident whose house was destroyed and took up residence in a hollow tree, Alasehir, Turkey.2wk ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 11th, 1922] Cage for carrying birds and mice by rescue parties in mines.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 1, 1920] Five men pose together for a photograph on the roof of Marceau's Studio2yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 9, 1921] Samuel Untermeyer declares Henry Ford a mad hatter for his series of anti-Semitic articles in the Dearborn Independent. Why can't the people realize that a cheap, petty, ignorant man who has grown rich can get just as crazy as any poor devil of an inmate of a lunatic asylum?1yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 7th, 1923] Ice skaters enjoy the Reflecting Pool outside the Lincoln Memorial.2wk ⋅ 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.9mo ⋅ 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.5mo ⋅ 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.5mo ⋅ 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.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 19th, 1922] An Unresponsive World (Chicago Tribune cartoon)4mo ⋅ 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.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 12th, 1922] Edmonton Triplets: Lily Smith in the maternity ward after giving birth to three babies.2mo ⋅ 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.11mo ⋅ 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.4mo ⋅ Ok-Opportunity9973 ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ 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.6mo ⋅ 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.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 9th, 1922] March On Rome. Fascist troops burn Socialist literature following entry into Rome.2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 18th, 1922] When Parents Are Punished For Their Children's Defects.3mo ⋅ 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.4d ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 17th, 1922] Albert Einstein plays the piano during his visit to Japan. He was also a good violinist1mo ⋅ SigmaSamurai ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 1st, 1922] As We Must Seem To Our Less Fortunate Neighbors (Chicago Tribune cartoon).5mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 2, 1921] Albert Einstein arriving in New York where he spoke on relativity and support for Palestine.1yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ 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.3mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 1st, 1923] From Mary To America: A happy New Year, 1923, writes the Sweetheart of the Films, Mary Pickford.3wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 20th, 1921] Mug shot taken of home robbers Hampton Hirscham, Cornellius Joseph Keevil, William Thomas O'Brien and James O'Brien1yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ 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)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 15th, 1922] Vladimir I. Lenin. Politician, with his nephew Viktor in the park of his house in Gorky.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 26, 1920] The “Pickle Sisters,” a vaudeville group named after the expression for when two women have sex with the same man.2yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 23rd, 1921] Sarah Doherty poses beside her conical cake on her 100th birthday.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 1st, 1922] Armed I.R.A. rebels in the streets during the Battle of Dublin.7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 9, 1921] Sophie Scholl, future anti-Nazi political activist, was born1yr ⋅ KyloTennant ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 21st, 1922] Anna (left) and Lilly Chow, of San Francisco's Chinatown, listen to the radio together.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 22nd, 1922] The Westerner's Idea of the Map of the U.S. (Chicago Tribune).6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 3rd, 1922] If Husbands And Wives Agreed To Change Jobs (Sunday Pictorial, London).1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 28th, 1922] Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen photographs two starving boys in Soviet Russia.11mo ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Sept. 1, 1920] One Week, Buster Keaton's first short film, is released to cinemas2yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ 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.1wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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 director3yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 21st, 1922] The German Mussolini, A Man Worth Watching (Article on Hitler from the Liverpool Post and Mercury)1mo ⋅ 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.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 10th, 1922] Frances Ethel Gumm is born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, she'd go on to become Judy Garland and have an illustrious career as an actress and singer, her most iconic role being that of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)8mo ⋅ KawaiiPotato15 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 23rd, 1922] Robed members of the Ku Klux Klan at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Chicago.5mo ⋅ 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.5mo ⋅ 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.2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 1, 1922] Harvard president and major league asshole A. Lawrence Lowell proposes a quota on Jewish students at Harvard. It didn't take but 5 years later he got his way by adding an interview to the admissions process.8mo ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ 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.7mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 9, 1920] My grandfather wanted to be a cartoonist. He worked for the railroad instead, sending home many letters.3yr ⋅ Ignorantsportsguy ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 19th, 1923] French troops in Germany during the occupation of the Ruhr.1wk ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 5th, 1922] Making Herself Beautiful (Daily Mirror, London).4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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.3yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 18, 1922] Elmer McCollum announces the discovery of vitamin D and its role in promoting bone growth and preventing rickets.7mo ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ 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.8mo ⋅ 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.6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 4th, 1920] The Treaty of Trianon is signed - Hungary loses 60% of its population and over 70% of its territory, becoming a small landlocked country2yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 17, 1920] Prohibition begins: Chicago police show off their first day of alcohol seizures.3yr ⋅ NordyNed ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 13th, 1922] Members of American white supremacist secret society the Ku Klux Klan ceremonially initiate a new recruit at a meeting.2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 1st, 1922] October 1922: Radio enthusiasts receiving concert broadcasts on radio apparatus and relaying them through a loudspeaker and headphones.4mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 11, 1920] The Garage was released to movie theaters. It was the last movie Buster Keaton made with Roscoe Arbuckle before striking out on his own3yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 10, 1920] The Flapper, starring Olive Thomas, was released, helping to introduce the concept of the flapper into American popular culture2yr ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 9th, 1921] Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 24, 1922] German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated in an anti-Semitic attack.7mo ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 4th, 1922] Preparing for the Concert. Students apply their make-up for the concert at Dulwich.1mo ⋅ 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.9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 4, 1922] Silent film star and Charlie Chaplin's girlfriend Florence Deshon dies at 29 of accidental gas asphyxiation.1yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ 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 Orleans2mo ⋅ Gjnglobal1 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 30th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Brooklyn pedestrians if they think it's a disgrace to be an old maid.5mo ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 28, 1922] It Begins to Look As Though It's Only a Matter of Time3mo ⋅ Ggegfegds ⋅ 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.1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 9, 1921] King George V with Crown Prince Hirohito in London. The Prince is on a tour of Europe.1yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
