1462 best r/100yearsago images on Pholder | [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.

[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.

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[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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[July 26, 1920] ‪The “Pickle Sisters,” a vaudeville group named after the expression for when two women have sex with the same man.‬

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[April 23rd, 1920] Vladimir Lenin is photographed

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[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 country

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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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[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.

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[Sept. 1, 1920] One Week, Buster Keaton's first short film, is released to cinemas

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[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?

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[August 3, 1920] At the Evergreen Institute for the Blind, Great War veterans who were blinded by gas attacks learn how to service tires despite their condition, allowing them to hold gainful employment for the rest of their days.

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[May 9, 1921] Sophie Scholl, future anti-Nazi political activist, was born

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

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[February 4, 1921] The government of Canada funds these advertisements in American newspapers, encouraging the immigration of Americans to settle Canada

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[April 2, 1921] Albert Einstein arriving in New York where he spoke on relativity and support for Palestine.

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[January 13, 1921] Ijuin Goro, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Great War, dies. He was 68.

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[May 18th, 1921] Buster Keaton's short film The Goat is released

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[February 9, 1920] My grandfather wanted to be a cartoonist. He worked for the railroad instead, sending home many letters.

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[February 5, 1921] Thomas Lynn Bradford, an American professor from Detroit, Michigan, killed himself to test his theory that a spirit world exists. He did not report back results.

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[10 July 1920] King Christian X rides into Schleswig, which Denmark reclaimed from Germany on this day 100 years ago

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[February 13, 1921] A freak animal is caught by hunters on Long Island, New York: much larger than an otter, with a 20-inch tail and smooth pelt, it is aggressively destroying everything in its path. It is thought to be an exotic animal escaped from a wealthy New Yorker’s estate.

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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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[November 7, 1920] The Soviet Union celebrates the third anniversary of the October Revolution by staging of mass theatrical production ‘The Storming of the Winter Palace,’ with 8,000 performers for an audience of 100,000 spectators in front of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.

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[January 31, 1920] German silent film star Gilda Langer dies at the age of 23. Although she worked with major directors of the time like Fritz Lang and Paul Leni today all of the films she made are believed to be lost

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[February 17th, 1921] Could the habit of wife-beating be restored?

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[Jan 2] Asimov Was Born one hundred years ago

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[May 9, 1921] King George V with Crown Prince Hirohito in London. The Prince is on a tour of Europe.

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[December 28, 1920] Amelia Earhart flies for the first time, sparking her lifelong interest in aviation. She disappeared at sea just 16 years later.

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

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[January 6, 1921] Devil Anse Hatfield, patriarch of the Hatfield clan during the infamous West Virginia Hatfield-McCoy feud of 1863-91, dies. He was 82.

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[January 1, 1921] New Years revelers celebrating in the Hotel Victoria in London.

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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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[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.

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

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[December 16, 1920] The black Americans arrested during the Duluth, Minnesota Race Riot earlier this year are released from prison.

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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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[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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[January 3, 1921] Just 6 days after her first time on board an aeroplane, Amelia Earhart has her first flying lesson in California.

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[December 21st, 1920] Four London and South Western railwaymen retiring at Woking after 207 years service between them.

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[Oct 2, 1919] Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke which leaves him bedridden and paralyzed. His wife, Edith Wilson, secretly attends to his duties while he is ill.

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[June 14th, 1921] Avion, France

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

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

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[December 11, 1920] The Appropriation Pie, cartoon by the American Union Against Militarism.

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[January 9, 1921] A US Navy airman involved in last week’s balloon crash in Ontario, Canada, is reported to have offered his own body so that his comrades could survive, but instead they made a pact to live together or starve together. All have been rescued.

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

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[January 24, 1921] A classroom in a Walla Walla, WA school.

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[February 12, 1921] Saturday Evening Post

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[July 31, 1920] President Wilson’s presidential yacht, the USS Mayflower, moored in Washington, DC Naval Yard.

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[May 7, 1921] The Literary Digest publishes a cartoon claiming the ‘only way to handle’ immigration is to severely restrict it.

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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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[May 2, 1921] Chicago's famous Field Museum opened at its new, iconic location today with a large crowd.

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[July 15, 1920] American Boy Scouts embark on a ship to the UK to participate in the world’s first international scouting Jamboree.

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[March 18th, 1921] Who's Going To Win The Grand National?

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[January 20th, 1921] Two ice skaters collide on the rink at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York

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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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[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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[February 18th, 1921] Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting Honourable Artillery Company Guard of Honour.

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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 30, 1920] A delegation of Mapuche Natives arrives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to reclaim land that ranchers stole from them.

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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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[January 21, 1921] Le kid a Charlie Chaplin movie

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[November 12, 1920] A collision between streetcars at 9th and F Street in Washington, DC.

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[January 19th, 1921] Man posing with tusks to be used in billiard ball production.

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[April 18th, 1920] The grandstands are packed for a Braves-Dodgers game.

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[November 6, 1920] First Homecoming, Notre Dame vs. Purdue.

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[July 9, 1919] World needs a League of Nations to stop a future generation of German people fed nothing but revenge

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[April 7, 1921] Kindergarten band.

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[December 28, 1919] A little Siberian maid and the three Russian bear cubs that pull her sleigh over the snow crust to and from school at a lively clip. Northern Russia has so far escaped the ravages of Bolshevism.

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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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[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.

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[February 9, 1921] Congress counting and ratifying the electoral votes for Warren G. Harding.

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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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[March 22, 1921] A busy London street as seen from a bus.

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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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[October 20th, 1920] Friends going for a ride in a Model T Ford stop to pick up another passenger.

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[April 22nd, 1918] Red Baron shot down in flames

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[December 20, 1919] Turkeys hang in a butcher shop in England, ready for sale at Christmas

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[March 28, 1921] T. E. Lawrence With Emir Abdullah.

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[December 9, 1920] Indianapolis police officers with a confiscated still and ingredients for bootleg booze.

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[December 25, 1920] Immigrant children in front of a Christmas tree at Ellis Island, New York.

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[December 22, 1920] The Prince of Siam, Mahidol Adulyadej, arriving in New York with his wife, Princess Srinagarindr.

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[May 5, 1921] Through the Back Door, starring Mary Pickford as a girl who winds up working as a maid in the house of her wealthy mother, is released

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[March 17, 1920] We miss you

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[March 23, 1920] Still raining.

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[March 19, 1921] President Warren G. Harding meeting injured/disabled troops at Walter Reed Hospital.

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[March 8, 1921] President Harding's cabinet has its first meeting, and goes outdoors to be photographed.

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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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[October 18th, 1920] London, demonstration at Downing Street

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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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[November 2, 1920] Warren G. Harding and his wife voting on election day, when he would win in a landslide to be elected the 29th president.

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