A horse race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Coney Island, New York. Nine horses are seen running on the track. After the race, jockeys ride to an area where they dismount and weigh out. (The race was won by a horse named "Famous Clifford" ridden by a jockey named Sloane.)
Free-for-all pacing race, with $6000 purse, at Charter Oak Park in Connecticut, United States. Large crowds watch the race. Horses and drivers in sulkies are seen as their horses pace past the crowd. (Filmed July 5, 1897, by Edison Company)
View of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Express on the Jersey Central passes underneath at full speed, just before a train passes overhead on the Pennsylvania crossing. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
Early advertising: Admiral Cigarette (1897) in the United States. A commercial. Four men in various costumes sit and converse in front of a billboard for Admiral Cigarettes. The billboard fills the entire background. Beside them is a large box, marked Admiral Cigarettes. A cross section of men: one dressed as an American Indian, with feather headdress, another a military outfit, a third, as Uncle Sam in striped pants, and the fourth (with pork-chop whiskers) is in a suit, vest, tie, and hat. Suddenly, the box pops open and a woman in tight-fitting costume emerges. She hands out cigarettes to the men and scatters dozens of cigarettes in front of them. She and the men smoke cigarettes and the men unfurl a banner saying, "We all smoke." (Edison Studio, New Jersey)
The Northern Pacific Railroad Overland Express arrives at Helena, Montana. A number of persons are waiting on the station platform, and a baggage wagon is seen. Behind the steam locomotive of the arriving train are four express cars, and behind them seven coaches and Pullmans. Passengers get on and off, and baggage and articles are loaded and unloaded. ( Edison Company film, copyrighted April 4,1900, but believed to be actually filmed about July 1897, when much attention was focused on the Klondike Gold Rush and capabilities of railroads in the Northwestern U.S.)
Horse-drawn coaches arrive at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel , Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Friends wait on the piazza to greet the new arrivals. (Filmed by Edison Company, ca. July 1897. Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; January 4, 1899)
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