Boys throw snow balls at other boys on sleds in Central Park,New York City, United States. A group of smiling children play in the snow. They throw snow balls. A few other children on sleds. The children on the other side throw snow balls at the children riding sleds in the park. (Edison Company, 1898)
50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women early in the 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at a factory. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa 1900. An early beauty pageant circa 1910. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.
Aaron Douglas is shown working on a large painting. He interacts with a lady and a man in a museum in New York City. African American painter, Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 - February 3, 1979), was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
View of Statue of Liberty from boat in water near Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor.New York City, United States.
An Arab boy perform acrobatics on a street in New York City. The boy turns headsprings backward and forward. He walks the crab, does cartwheels and other feats including acrobatic head spins (precursor to modern breakdancing dance moves).
A street in Coney Island, New York City. People in the streets in the United States. A man rides a bicycle along a street. A banner suspended across the road reads: 'Lunch Room'. People on cycles, horse drawn surrey, and other modes of transport on the street. Many pedestrians stroll along the sidewalk, past large restaurant building.
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