Most Viewed Year 1899 - 16

Pennsylvania's historic Horseshoe Curve, photographed by an Edison cameraman in 1899.

It looks like peasants dancing in their holiday finery, the women wearing long skirts, the men britches and flowered hats. They set into pairs and...

A couple of women stand in a field, using pitch forks to separate burning grass. Men run away from the event. Meanwhile, a third woman stands to the...

A man with a heavy beard and long hair comes into a barber shop. The barber wets down his hair, does a thorough job of cutting, leaving customer with...

A scene in Amsterdam.

Two men box while standing on their hands

This is a ladies cycling display in the summer of 1899 in London, England. It is a display/show by the Catford Cycling Club.

Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th...

This scene is laid in a barber shop. A customer enters and takes his seat in the chair. The barber places the cloth about his neck, sharpens his...

Troyes captured by the Lumiere Brothers

A dancing girl.

Builders fight on the scaffold of Paul's new studio until one falls and is injured.

Twenty-five round fight.

A carriage draws up, wheeling to a stop right in front of the camera. There is a cut and the camera has drawn back. The duchess steps out, pauses,...