1898 Movies

The camera sails off, giving us a view of the port from the water.

Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are h...

Here is a freight train of thirty cars loaded with baggage and ambulance supplies for the 9th U.S. Cavalry.

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

A sweet little girl is seated in the bow of a life-boat feeding crackers to a magnificent St. Bernard dog, while a tabby cat dozes and blinks at her s...

Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.

A short documentary produced by Oskar Messter that captures the traffic at the square.

The pope resting.

Italian and German sovereigns, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy, Wilhelm II and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, walking down the stairs and b...

Playful ramblers carrying Sunlight placards in a cow pasture in the Jura (Canton of Vaud). The respectable gentleman is none other than William Whitel...

"This picture was taken from the front of a rapidly moving launch through one of the most beautiful stretches of the Grand Canal, showing many magnifi...

The famous show makes a parade.

Soldiers setting up camp.

The famous show makes a parade.

Short film from 1897

American troops prepare for the invasion of Cuba.

There is a burglar on the rooftop of a Manhattan office building, and he is trying to break in. Two women spot him, and one of them begins beating him...

Taken at Washington, in front of the Navy Department, and shows Secretary of the Navy Long and Captain Sigsbee of the ill-fated 'Maine' coming down th...