1898 Movies

People entering an arena on horseback.

"Shows steamer plunging head-on through the heavy seas. Huge waves break over the bow and wash the deck, almost carrying away the look-out."

A group of monks in procession carrying a large crucifix in Vatican City, 1898.

Four women dressed in the costume of the era perform a can-can. They were photographed from a single camera position.

A single-camera position film of a merry-go-round at an unidentified location. The carousel makes about ten revolutions during the film.

This picture of the pride of the United States Navy was made on the occasion of the Peace Jubilee in New York City...

Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the B...

This is a wonderfully impressive picture, taken on the morning after the battle in which the Spanish navy was destroyed...

This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguishe...

Taken on 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch, Santa Anita, Cal. Shows an engine and five cars approaching from a distance.

Scene of pilgrimage fair in a Czechoslavic village.

Miners at the Solvay Quarries leave their drilling machine to flee from a planned blast in the rock face.

Skating scene.

Soldiers setting up camp.

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women an...

A scene showing the singing of "La Marseillaise".