Most Viewed Year 1897 - 27

The great automobile fire engine on its way to a conflagration, accompanied by hose wagons, etc. A very exciting scene.

Crawford's had a store in Madison Square, New York. The horse-drawn buses were typical and can be seen in photographs of Madison Square at this date.

Two gymnasts successively perform various exercises on a pommel horse.

'The 'Nordland,' and 'Teutonic,' two well-known transatlantic steamers proceeding out of New York Harbor at full speed, bound for their trip across...

Film produced by John Le Couteur for Gaumont, using a 60mm Demeny camera, showing part of the procession to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond...

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Images of Parisian women

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and...

"This view was made at the Scheveningen Baths. It shows a number of bathers enjoying themselves in the surf. Several picturesque Holland boats are...

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

The first Swedish film by photographer Ernest Florman. Kung Oscar II welcomes King Chulalonkorn of Siam, now Thailand, at Logårdstrappan. King...

Two men pull a practical prank on two victims.

A young boy plays with a paralyzed old lady.

Carrara, Italy. A train loaded with marble exits a tunnel.

The arrival of King Rama V, the king of Siam, in Switzerland.

Panorama of Nice from the deck of a ship.

Phantom ride shot from the engine front as a steam train pulling away from Wormit station in Fife, crossing the Tay rail bridge and passing south...

An elderly man wearing a silk top hat, mesmerises sparrows –and his audience- in a public square.

"Shows a large flock of sheep being driven from the cars to the slaughter house."