[August 10th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, Is life worth while?9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 27, 1923] US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, is born in Furth, Germany11mo ⋅ HTAwesome ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 27, 1920] The inaugural game at the University of Washington's then new stadium versus Dartmouth.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 24th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on Wall Street & Broadway what their hobbies are.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 12, 1920] A collision between streetcars at 9th and F Street in Washington, DC.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 27th, 1922] Married Miscalculations. No.3.— The Affectionate Husband.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[17th May 1923] Thousands of railroad officials and workers are fired by the belgian and french occupation forces in the Ruhr area. They are replaced by soldiers and volunteers. This led to a slow increase of coal production, but burdened the french-german relations.1yr ⋅ Random_German_Name ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 18th, 1921] The Prince of Wales (centre), posing with the first tiger he ever shot on his tour of Nepal.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 18th, 1920] The grandstands are packed for a Braves-Dodgers game.4yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 16th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on Broadway if there are too many dogs in New York City.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 17th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Newark pedestrians if they think hip flasks are the greatest menace to the morals of young women.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians what they think of the Episcopalian plan to remove the word obey from marriage service vows.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 27, 1921] Lady Astor gives a speech in Parliament supporting paid maternity leave - it took 50 more years for the UK to adopt the policy. At one point unable to find a book passage she wished to quote, she threw the book at Lord Robert Cecil and yelled, Find it for me, Bob!3yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 21st, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the South Bronx if a husband has the right to rummage through his wife's handbag.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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.4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 22nd, 1921] New Parliament of Northern Ireland meets at Belfast City Hall and is opened by George V of the United Kingdom, making a speech (drafted by Jan Smuts) calling for reconciliation in Ireland.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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 surfing4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 9, 1921] Congress counting and ratifying the electoral votes for Warren G. Harding.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 30th, 1923] A baby in its cot on a ledge outside a window in Bloomsbury, London.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 9th 1922] An Army private comes to attention and salutes as he hears the Star Spangled Banner sent wireless over a Marvel receiving radio set with a horn attached to throw the sound, New York.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 17th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter in Chicago asks, Lloyd George recently asked for a typically American dinner. What would you serve him at your home?6mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[Aug 15, 1923] mugshot of a woman wearing a fur coat arrested for “vagrancy” (likely a charge used in place of prostitution without enough proof for that charge)8mo ⋅ Ophelia_Y2K ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 4th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks passersby on Broadway what they would do to make New York City a better place.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 15, 1921] Ethel Kimball is charged with fraud for marrying Louise Aechter, of Somerville, Mass., after posing as a man named James Hathaway.2yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 25th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Manhattan's Civic Center if they think Prohibition is making the current generation better or worse.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 17th, 1921] Germany: the mark continues to plummet; £1 is worth 720M.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[September 5th, 1923] Coat with embroidered panels on sleeves and a fur trim collar and cuffs.8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 14th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians how Prohibition has affected them and their loved ones.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 23rd, 1921] The Outbursts of Everett True by A.D. Condo2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 25th, 1922] Berlin: demonstration in the Berlin Lustgarten after the murder of Walther Rathenau.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 23rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in south Midtown Manhattan if they think the new automatic-dial phones render better service than the old.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 4th, 1921] The value of Germany's Deutsche Mark dropped to an all-time low of almost 1/4 of a U.S. penny, with one dollar being the equivalent of 243 Marks.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 3rd, 1923] Alex Morrison, American trick golf champion has to be sure accurate when it comes to timing his stroke. He is shown demonstrating by knocking a ball off the wrist watch of Miss Sidney Nelson, artist's model and winner of the bathing beauty contest at Atlantic City, last summer.10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 9th, 1921] Moscow: Lenin appeals to the international proletariat for famine relief.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 19, 1921] President Warren G. Harding meeting injured/disabled troops at Walter Reed Hospital.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 18th, 1923] 76 Die in Fire Panic; Exploding Lamp Turns School Into Inferno.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 22nd, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Lower Manhattan women if they'd wear steel-bound corsets if they were in style again.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 3rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks men from Staten Island what their wives gain by having them as husbands.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 27th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on Wall Street if having a career detracts from a woman's charm.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 26th, 1922]] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians near Madison Square Park what they would do if they knew this was their last week alive.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 3rd, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks passersby on Broadway whether or not dances should be allowed to last after midnight.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 28th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Madison Square pedestrians what they think of the proposed law limiting breach-of-promise lawsuits [jilted engagements] to payments of six cents.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 13th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks men in Brooklyn: when an engagement is broken off, who feels it worse, the man or the woman?2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 28, 1920] The Democratic National Convention opened today in San Francisco. This is a ticket to the gallery.4yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 2nd, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter from the Chicago Tribune asks men, What is your idea of a regular girl?11mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 13, 1921] President Harding throws out the first pitch on opening day at Griffith Stadium for the Washington Senators.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 20th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks men at the Home for Aged and Disabled Railroad Men, What was the most exciting experience in your railroad career?8mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 19th, 1921] U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Dillingham Immigration Bill into law, limiting annual immigration from individual nations to no more than the number of people who had immigrated to America from those nations in 1910.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 27th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Union Square what they think is the best way to stay healthy.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Madison Square if people should be required to complete a physical exam before getting a marriage license.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 16th, 1922] Portrait of a Socialite Woman (Original Caption) New York, New York: Easter Sunday on Fifth Avenue. Evelyn McManus.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 2nd, 1922] The Wrigley's arrow gives sketchy dietary advice to sell his gum.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 2 1920] A man sprays the inside of a London General Omnibus Co bus with anti-flu preparation during the flu epidemic, London4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 20th, 1921] Pleased sends a letter to the New York Daily News sticking up for the Inquiring Photographer against Gladys.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 8, 1921] President Harding's cabinet has its first meeting, and goes outdoors to be photographed.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 5th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Financial District pedestrians if they think rich men's wives are happier than poor men's wives.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 12th, 1922] Italy: Fascists burn Communist and anti-Nationalist literature seized from a Socialist newspaper.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 17th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks police detectives in Chicago, What has been the effect of the automobile on crime?10mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 20, 1919] Turkeys hang in a butcher shop in England, ready for sale at Christmas4yr ⋅ Its_Happning_Again ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 6, 1920] Police Officer helps woman through blinding snow during record blizzard in Boston.4yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 10th, 1920] A section of the crowd at Stamford Bridge for the football match between Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday.4yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 3rd, 1921] People say that people in England can't smile- but can't they?3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 19th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Financial District if there's any good reason people should continue the tradition of wearing mourning clothes.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 26th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks men in front of the Alexander Hamilton Custom House if they know where to find a speakeasy.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 12th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Greenwich Village pedestrians what they think of Rudolph Valentino's statement that any man who believes they understand women is either a liar or an imbecile.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 1, 1922] Wyoming State Tribune: Starving Wolves Eat Peasants2yr ⋅ DyersvilleStLambert ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 17th, 1923] New York Yankees left-fielder Babe Ruth nurses an ulcerated hand shortly after undergoing an operation on it at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 17th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Union Square pedestrians if working people should be compelled to work more than eight hours per day.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Long Island City, Queens about the most beautiful thing they've ever seen.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 27th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks women in the Financial District what they plan on wearing for Easter Sunday.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[October 20th, 1920] Friends going for a ride in a Model T Ford stop to pick up another passenger.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 31st, 1923] The proprietor of the new Maison Arthur Grill distributed $100,000,000 in German marks to be used for confetti on New Year's Eve in New York.3mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 20th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Washington Square pedestrians: if they could talk for ten minutes with a famous person, who would they choose?1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 2nd, 1923] The Piggly Wiggly store in Chicago undersells all competition!1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 31st, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks NYC women if all men give them the same pickup lines when they meet.11mo ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 15, 1919] 'The Boston Molassacre' occurred when tank containing molasses exploded creating a deadly 15' tall wave of molasses.5yr ⋅ Evansly ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 25, 1920] Immigrant children in front of a Christmas tree at Ellis Island, New York.3yr ⋅ amcm67 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 20, 1919] United Kingdom flag created out of a giant human formation 19195yr ⋅ Thats_JustGreat ⋅ r/100yearsago
[February 13th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter in San Francisco asks, Should school teachers be allowed to bob their hair?2mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 10th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in the Financial District if the government should be the only agency legally allowed to sell firearms.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 9, 1920] Indianapolis police officers with a confiscated still and ingredients for bootleg booze.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 9th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Brooklyn pedestrians what they think of the French push to stop men from tipping their hats to women in the winter.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 22, 1920] The Prince of Siam, Mahidol Adulyadej, arriving in New York with his wife, Princess Srinagarindr.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 3rd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on Broadway if they think Jack Dempsey should fight Harry Wills for the heavyweight title.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 16th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Downtown Brooklyn pedestrians if they plan on starting a garden this year - and what they'll plant in it.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 24th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks New York pedestrians if a married man deserves one night off a week to do what he wants.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 3rd, 1922] Go Ye Out Into The Highways and Hedges. The biblical quotation is literally carried out by the Reverend Brandord Clarke, known as New York's painter preacher. So this minister has constructed a miniature church on a Ford chassis in which he intends to go from town to town.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 27th, 1923] When Parents Arrange Marriages For Their Children—9mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[July 27th, 1922] Homestead, PA.: A Ku Klux Klan Initiation in Pennsylvania. A specially posed photograph of the knights of the Ku Klux Klan in full regalia in the midst of an initiation ceremony recently at homestead, Penn.1yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 11th, 1921] Germany, in a note to the Allies, accepts unconditionally the reparation terms set forth in the ultimatum of May 5.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 25th, 1920] A crowd of men and boys, all wearing hats, waiting for the football match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace at the Goldstone Ground in Brighton on Christmas Day in 1920.3yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 20, 1920] Born this day, DeForest Kelley (d. June 11, 1999), known to colleagues as Dee, was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer known for his roles in Westerns and as Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991).4yr ⋅ cabeachgal ⋅ r/100yearsago
[December 19th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on Broadway what three things they would wish for if trapped on a desert island.2yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 16, 1921] Freshmen men's basketball squad for the University of New Hampshire.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 16th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Brooklyn pedestrians how much of a man's salary should be allocated by his wife for her clothes.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[June 8, 1920] The Republican National Convention opened in Chicago today, tasked with nominating its candidate for president.4yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[April 25th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians if they think a Get-to-Know-Your-Neighbor Day event would be a good idea in NYC.1yr ⋅ Missy_Elliott_Smith ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 17, 1919] Signs of the Times, The Washington Times, cartoon.4yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 18th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter in San Francisco asks, Do you think the third stanza of the Star-Spangled Banner should be dropped from the official version of the National Anthem?1mo ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[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.3yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[March 7, 1921] Peggy Marlowe gives self-defense advice to the women of Los Angeles and re-enacts how she pummeled the starch out of one cad. She is only 19 years of age, weighs 110 pounds and yet has thoroughly whipped a 'masher' unaided, the Evening Express marvels.3yr ⋅ knotso6 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[August 5th, 1921] The U.S. Navy's H-1 airship flies low over a field.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[28 July 1921] My great grandfather set this record. I havent found the plate in time so i am a bit late.2yr ⋅ Suspicious_Age7517 ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 21st, 1921] Versailles, France: The trial of Henri Landru, alleged Bluebeard, who is accused of murdering 11 persons. Ten of them were former sweethearts. Landru is shown giving his evidence.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[November 17th, 1921] Landru trial: The notorious oven of Landru, in which he allegedly burnt the remains of his victims.2yr ⋅ michaelnoir ⋅ r/100yearsago
[January 28, 1920] Influenza update: over 3600 cases reported in one day in NYC.4yr ⋅ Scarlettail ⋅ r/100yearsago
[May 23, 1921] Flora McDonald Denison, Canadian suffragette and author, dies from complications of the Spanish flu at 54.3yr ⋅ kthejoker ⋅ r/100yearsago
