Most Viewed Year 1897 - 29

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

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.

After several athletes have tried unsuccessfully to pole vault, one last gymnast performs a perfect jump.

As a train comes to a halt, workers begin to unload the gravel it is transporting.

"This is one of the most remarkable views that has ever been taken, and shows a modern high-power gun in act of discharge. The immense gun, weighing...

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

A few men working at the Jonage canel, Lyon.

Showing the Austrian Emperor laying the corner stone of a new military barracks.

Images of Parisian women

Two teams of artillery carriages, parading side by side past the grandstand during the inauguration ceremony of President McKinley in Washington DC.

Shot from a train as it leaves a station.

People carry candles in a procession in Lourdes.

Two men pull a practical prank on two victims.

Queen Elisabeth of Wied, in a carriage escorted by cavalry, followed by King Carol I and Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on horseback, greeted by...

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

Johan Carl Joensen, a Danish colonial manager in Greenland, drives his dog sled in Copenhagen’s Fælledparken. (stumfilm.dk)