[May 24th, 1923] Children dressed to represent Britannia, Wales, Scotland and various characters from history as they celebrate Empire Day.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 28th, 1920] Congratulations, Lady Liberty congratulating a woman on the passage of the National Suffrage Amendment, illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, Life magazine3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 16, 1920] Men queued around the block at a “last call” liquor sale in Detroit hours before nationwide Prohibition prevents any alcohol sale for the next 12 years4yr ⋅ The70th ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 17th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks women around Times Square: At what age is a man most interesting?2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 10th, 1923] Berlin: A communist children's group during a rally.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 11th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Flatiron District what they consider to be the best wedding present.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 2nd, 1922] Chinese adhere to ancient methods of punishment. Three Chinese women who have been adjudged guilty of some crime or other serving their time in the Cangue. The punishment is reminiscent of the manner in which supposed witches were punished in this country in colonial days.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 29th 1922] The perfect back is found! The search of several months by osteopaths for the perfect back, of women, of course, has at last ended. Mrs. W. Rodgers of Pittsburgh is the winner of the thousand dollar prize put up by the osteopaths for the woman who possessed the perfect back.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 23rd, 1922] When The Air Is Full Of Wireless Waves, How Will It Affect The People They Permeate?2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 19th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in downtown Brooklyn what should be done to punish mashers who annoy women in movie theaters.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Oct 13th, 1922] The 3-D silent film Mars Calling, with a 95-minute running time was presented in New York City's Selwyn Theatre to demonstrate the Teleview process invented by Laurens Hammond. The process used alternate frame sequencing viewable with motorized stereopticons used by the audience.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 8th, 1922] Rebecca L. Felton, the first female United States Senator, sits at her desk in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 9, 1922] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, arrives in the US to give a series of lectures on spiritualism. He claims to have spoken to 20 dead people including his son.2yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 6th, 1924] The Inquirer Reporter asks people, Do you approve of the state law which forbids the showing of such pictures as The Birth of a Nation?2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 3rd, 1923] Director Cecil B. De Mille (left) introducing War Secretary John Weeks (right) to Charles De Roche, garbed as Rameses II for the film The Ten Commandments.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 7th, 1923] Heinrich Ford Idol of Bavaria Fascisti Chief. Adolf Hitler told the Chicago Tribune that he would support automobile magnate Henry Ford (who was known for his anti-Semitism) if Ford ran for President of the United States.1yr ⋅ thamusicmike ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 15th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Washington Square what interests them most in life.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 21st, 1922] Boy Scouts Summering at Bear Mountain Camp. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith with some of the boys.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4, 1919] The Old Treadmill, The Washington Times, cartoon.4yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 21st, 1923] Mr Leslie Henson serves an ice cream to Miss Dorothy Dickson of the Cabaret Follies, at the Daily Express Women's Exhibition at Olympia, London. The stand advertises 'Ices without ice' in four minutes. 1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 5th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in City Hall Park if they'd rather be rich and uneducated or poor and educated.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 27th, 1922] 25,000 Ukrainian-Americans march on 5th Avenue to protest the Polish occupation of East Galicia.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 4th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks WWI veterans in the Theater District if they think they'll ever get their bonus.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 7th, 1923] M.Barbot with the engine of the glider which he crossed the channel in. 7th May 1923.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 3rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Brooklyn pedestrians if bachelors are happier than married men.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks NoMad pedestrians what they think of Edith Huntington Spreckels Wakefield, the California woman who offered another $100/month to buy her husband.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 30th, 1923] Civil War veterans at a Memorial Day G.A.R. Parade.11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 8, 1921] MLB home run leader Babe Ruth spends most of the day in jail due to a second arrest for speeding (35 MPH!) He's then escorted by motorcops to Yankee Stadium to join the game in progress (Yanks win 4-3)3yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 6th, 1922] Chicago, Illinois: Members of the hooded Ku Klux Klan attending church services at the Pacific Congregational Church in Chicago. The Klansmen occupied the pulpit, as shown here.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 7th, 1922] The Wonders of the Wireless Age by John T. McCutcheon2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 10th, 1922] Prayers during the execution of the assassins Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan of Field Marshal Henry Hughes Wilson, hanged 10 August 1922 in the courtyard of Pentonville Prison, London.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 7, 1922] 43 men are indicted for taking part in the Ku Klux Klan home raids in Inglewood, California in April of that year. (Spoiler alert: acquitted.)2yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 18th, 1922] The Changing World, cartoon from the Chicago Tribune.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 8th, 1923] The Beer Hall Putsch begins in Munich as Adolf Hitler and 603 members of his Nazi Party's Storm Troopers surround a large beer hall, Der Burgerbraukeller.5mo ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 24th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks New York pedestrians what benefits they've derived from Daylight Savings Time.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 23, 1922] On Thanksgiving Day, wheelchair-bound children are given the opportunity to appreciate statues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. These children are afflicted by polio and other diseases, and many are crippled for life.1yr ⋅ morganmonroe81 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 24th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks NoMad pedestrians what happiness means to them.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 18, 1922] Casper Daily Tribune: Bandits Seize $200,000 (Denver mint robbery).1yr ⋅ DyersvilleStLambert ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 22nd, 1922] Many Die As Airship Falls (New York Daily News).2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 18, 1922] Convict escapes to plant crops and returns and is pardoned2yr ⋅ chyken ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 11th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in front of the Customs House in Manhattan what they dislike most.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 8th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians if they think the average NYC workday is too short (and what the ideal length would be).1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 2nd, 1921] Babe Ruth, New York Yankees outfielder, undergoes scientific tests at Columbia University to prove his superiority in speed of eye, brain, and muscle.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 15th, 1923] In Gay Paris No. 6- L'Abbaye de Thelem from the Philadelphia Inquirer.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 9, 1923] Casper Daily Tribune: Oil Prosecutions Are Extended1yr ⋅ DyersvilleStLambert ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 19th, 1923] Group of People Surrounding Auto Wreck, Washington DC.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Sept. 24, 1923] Three Ages, the first feature film directed by Buster Keaton, is released7mo ⋅ Auir2blaze ⋅ 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
[March 17th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks New York magistrates what effect they've seen Prohibition have on the American people.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 20th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians how they account for the recent heat wave.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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 30, 1922] Mrs. Margaret Lindauer cuts of her arm because a spirit commanded her to do so.2yr ⋅ chyken ⋅ 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
[July 11, 1921] Wisconsin becomes the first state in the U.S. to guarantee women equal rights in all aspects of the law, not just voting. Gov. John Blaine signs the act declaring that women shall have the same rights and privileges under the law as men.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ 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
[March 13th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians about the most ridiculous fad they could remember women following.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 1, 1921] New Years revelers celebrating in the Hotel Victoria in London.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ 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
[March 1st, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Greenwich Village pedestrians if the wives of today are as good at cooking as their mothers were.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 26th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks children in Manhattan what they want to be when they grow up.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 8th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks bathers at the Brighton Beach Baths if the ban on one-piece swimsuits for women should be lifted.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[May 7, 1921] The Literary Digest publishes a cartoon claiming the ‘only way to handle’ immigration is to severely restrict it.3yr ⋅ MonsieurA ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 1st, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Bowling Green park what they think of couples who make love in public places.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[May 15th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in City Hall Park if baseball fans should be allowed to keep the foul balls batted into the stands.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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.5yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks passengers on the RMS Mauretania why they're visiting Europe instead of America.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[February 1st, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Union Hill, NJ what they would do if they could be a child again for a day.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 2nd, 1921] The Crown Prince of Japan, Hirohito, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, June 2, 19213yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 16, 1923] San Antonio Light: Alien Hordes Seep Across Border1yr ⋅ DyersvilleStLambert ⋅ 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
[July 5th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Flatiron District what they think of the ongoing railroad strike.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 3rd, 1921] William Howard Taft is administered the oath of office to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He remains the only man in history to hold this office and that of President.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 3, 1921] Just 6 days after her first time on board an aeroplane, Amelia Earhart has her first flying lesson in California.3yr ⋅ B_C_S ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 23rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks women in Washington Square why girls always close their eyes while being kissed.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 21st, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Financial District if they think girls are getting more beautiful than they used to be.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 18th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in downtown Brooklyn if schoolyards should open up to the public after the end of the school day.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[May 2, 1921] Chicago's famous Field Museum opened at its new, iconic location today with a large crowd.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 16th, 1922] How The Americans May Influence Our Manners(from the British Sunday Pictorial)1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 12th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on the steps of the NYC Public Library how they would rank Abraham Lincoln in American history.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 28, 1922] William Byrd, a Black farmhand, is lynched in Brentwood, Georgia, for allegedly murdering his boss.2yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 30, 1922] Rookie Chicago White Sox pitcher Charley Robertson throws a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers, the 4th in modern baseball history.2yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 28th, 1923] Proposes To Stop Movie Race Slurs (from the Chicago Tribune)2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 27th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Staten Island pedestrians if a woman convicted of first-degree murder should pay the same penalty as a man with the same offense.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
[April 21, 1922] 14,000 tons of opium seized on steamer; $200,000 in narcotics from Far East taken at San Francisco2yr ⋅ chyken ⋅ 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
[April 23rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks the children of Midtown Manhattan how they get their spending money and what they do with it.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ 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
