Most Viewed Year 1903 - 13

Soldiers jump over each others’ backs in two lines advancing toward the camera.

The USS Indiana stages a rescue operation of a crewman that's fallen overboard.

Silent film.

Male letter carriers of the U.S. Post Office are the subject of this series on the Postal Department. The camera was placed to show a large number of...

This short film, produced in the United Kingdom and France in 1903, showcases a lyrical journey across the Atlantic. Witness an orange-red sunset and...

Three women in pajamas dance for the camera.

Siegmund Lubin's 1903 film illustrating The Outcast and the Bride survives and is the only vestige of Lubin's myriad attempts at coordinating sound...

A man and his wife are seated at a table in their happy New Jersey home. A huge mosquito appears and buzzes about their heads. The man seizes a broom...

Two men spot a couple of dressed mannequins standing outside a tailor shop. As a joke, they move them.

The mistress of a country home is going about inspecting the work done by her servant, when she discovers dust on the railing surrounding the porch,...

A Postman Picking up Mail

Five African Americans--three men and two women--perform a cakewalk, a dance featuring fancy strutting that was named after the prize awarded in the...

Shows an old house in the background with one window with the shutters closed. A bill poster comes along and puts up a poster advertising a burlesque...

A group of carriers leaving a building.

Shows a pilot climbing over the rail and down a rope ladder. A rowboat, pulled by two men, comes alongside. The pilot jumps in and they pull away....

In this picture a fine idea of the jockeying and start is given, showing Shamrock III. very close, the sailors running back and forth as she passes...

The steamscow passes a pinnace headed in the other direction, then steams on past the huge paddlewheeler.

America's Cup Races.

A husband walks out on his wife, leaving an incriminating letter behind. She hires a detective, who discovers the husband in a compromising position...

A car ride through Trier, ca. 1903.