Most Viewed Year 1896 - 3

"A well-known character, in a dance that created considerable excitement when first introduced in America."

A mother takes her children for a walk, lifts her baby girl out of the buggy and gently sets her down to the ground. She then moves a few steps away...

A woman and a young girl each carry containers of bird feed, and they toss occasional handfuls to the chickens and doves in the farmyard. Most of the...

Boston, Commercial Street.

Passengers leaving a ship in Lyon.

Game of marbles between four or five boys.

A French family consisting of father, mother and two children, sitting around a table and eating a meal.

Russian sovereign Nicholas II and Alexandra Fiodorovna, and President Felix Faure, parading down the Champs-Elysées in a carriage, followed by...

The first movie audiences took particular delight in scenes of rushing, churning water. These scenes of Niagara Falls were taken in September 1896,...

The Count of Montebello and General de Boisdeffre arrive at the coronation of Nicholas II of Russia.

This scene of an African-American woman vigorously scrubbing a black baby was immensely popular with early audiences, and was featured on...

A man tries to get a good night's sleep, but is disturbed by a giant spider that leaps onto his bed, and a battle ensues in hilarious comic fashion.

Several military companies parading, on foot, in front of Wilhelm II, in Breslau, Germany (nowadays Wroclaw, Poland).

Porters bring goods into a warehouse.

Lyon, Men rescue rabbits from flood.

People board a leisure ship while porters ship their luggage in the town of Évian-les-Bains.