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Film, VideoWomen of the ghetto bathing
Title from Biograph production log: Ladies day at public baths | Title from American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalog: Ladies day at the public baths The subject is a group of women and girls in a public swimming pool wearing turn-of the-century bathing attire. Many women and girls are playing in the pool, while others climb out and jump into the pool. The water in the the pool appears to be about four feet deep and the pool is very crowded. According the Biograph picture catalogue, the scene takes...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Marvin, Arthur W.
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoMcKinley and party
Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue [MI]: President McKinley's inspection of Camp Wikoff "This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense distances of Camp Wikoff with its multitude of tents in the background. The President, with Vice-President Hobart and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, appear in an...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1898
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Film, VideoShooting the Chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island
Title from Biograph production log: Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park "The camera was positioned to view the Shoot-the-Chutes concession from the best location. A special added attraction for the entertainment of the spectators is a man in a swimming suit who rides down the Shoot-the-Chutes on one ski"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoA perilous proceeding The film follows a group of approximately ten men who are suspended on the cable of a large crane atop a building under construction. As the men are lifted over the site and gradually lowered, they wave to the camera.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Congdon, James - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoEmpire State Express "The film opens on a scene of a railroad section gang mending tracks on a curved area. In the distane a locomotive can be seen approaching the camera position. As it goes by the camera, four cars can be counted, in addition to the locomotive. The track workers wave and cheer, and the white-coated Pullman porters standing on the steps of each car wave...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - American Mutoscope Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1896
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Film, VideoElevated railroad, New York
Around the big curves | Elevated R.R. 110 St. curve, New York City | Around the big curves on the Manhattan Elevated R.R. Taken from the front end of a locomotive following an express train at high speed around the high curves of the Ninth Avenue Elevated, from the 104th to 116th Street station. This section, with its reverse curve, is known as "The Big Loop", and is the highest (at over 100 feet) and most dangerous section on the New York Elevated. During the trip, Grant's...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoParade of "exempt" firemen The film shows a large group of people watching the approach of a color guard followed by a number of elderly marching firemen [Frame: 1734] pulling antique fire equipment [2486]. In the background is the white marble Washington Arch [0116], designed by Stanford White and completed in 1895 to commemorate the first inauguration of George Washington.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoGeneral Wheeler and Secretary Alger
Title in Biograph production log: Gen. Wheeler and Sec'y Alger | Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: Gen. Wheeler and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger at Camp Wikoff "This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguished military men are seen overlooking the immense camp ground, and then turning and walking toward the camera. The negative is very fine photographically, and the portraiture unexcelled"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1898
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Film, VideoMadison Square, New York "Madison Square, New York is shown just after the turn of the century. There is normal traffic consisting of streetcars and horse-drawn vehicles"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902
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Film, VideoBeginning of a skyscraper
Starting a skyscraper The scene is an excavation site in New York City. A large group of workmen with picks and shovels are digging. Carts drawn by pairs of horses can be seen emerging from the smoke in the background. "Taken in the immense excavation for the foundation of the new Macy Building at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, New York. An excellent study of...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoParade of horses on Speedway
Speedway parade | Parade on the Speedway The film is of the third annual parade of the Road Drivers Association of New York. A procession of fine horses and fashionable carriages move along the Harlem River Speedway, in the Highbridge section of northern Manhattan. The view is from the Manhattan side of the river looking north. On the right is the Harlem River and on the opposite bank, the Bronx. Prominent...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Film, VideoPresident Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue [MI]: Col. Theodore Roosevelt and officers of his staff | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 2 [MI]: Col. Theodore Roosevelt and staff | Title in Biograph production log: Col. Roosevelt and staff, Camp Wikoff "This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to his headquarters, where he dismounts and walks into his tent. This view was taken in the camp with the Rough Riders, and is an excellent picture of Col. Roosevelt in the environment he loves so well"--American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1898
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Film, Video15th Infantry
Variant title from Biograph production logs: 15th Infantry U.S.A. leaving for China | Variant title from Biograph production logs: Fifteenth Infantry off for China | Variant title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908: Ready for duty "Fifteenth Infantry in campaign uniforms and equipment, Governor's Island, N. Y."--Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Film, VideoBoat race
Title from Biograph production log: U. S. N. Dept., boat race--"Indiana" | Variant title from Biograph production log: Boat race "Indiana" Two standard U.S. Navy eight-oar pulling boats, each commanded by a coxswain at the steering position in the stern, are seen abeam of one another. At a signal, both pulling boats begin moving and it can be seen that the camera was positioned on a vessel following the two competing pulling boats. The camera stays with the two boats until their destination is disclosed...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - McCutcheon, Wallace - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoAutomobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup
Variant title from Biograph production logs: International auto race--Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph photo catalog v. 6: Internat'l automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from the AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910: International automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 225: Great international automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup | Variant title from Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 257: Vanderbilt Cup races "By special arrangement with the committee of the Automobile Club of America, we were given preferred positions at three different points on the course during the automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup. A most exciting picture throughout, showing the most dramatic features of the event. As a picture it is much more interesting than any automobile race that has ever been made, as apparently...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoExcavating for a New York foundation
Lifting a wagon from a New York foundation The scene is an excavation pit at an unidentified New York City construction site. A crew of six men can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden cart. Then a full cart is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam-powered crane. These carts are similar in design to those shown dumping rubble at the end of the film...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoRock drill at work in subway
Title in Biograph production log: Rock drills at work on subway | Title in Biograph photo catalog: Rock drills in subway | Title in Biograph bulletins 1896-1908: In the New York subway "Men appear to be operating a large steam drill to excavate an area approximately fifty feet deep and a hundred yards wide"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoThe Brooklyn Handicap-1904
Variant title from Biograph production logs: Running of the Brooklyn Handicap, 1904 "This is in every respect one of the most interesting horse race pictures ever made. Our photographers had the advantage of a clear day, and the race was one of the greatest ever run in the United States. Having had four cameras at the track, we were able to secure: 1st, A view of the horses leaving the paddock and the parade to the...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1904
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Film, VideoDeparture of Peary [and the] "Roosevelt" from New York
Departure of Peary [and] Roosevelt from New York | Departure of Peary for the North Pole The camera pans to show the schooner "Roosevelt" docked at a covered pier on the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side. Then, from a camera position on board, men in straw hats and fashionably dressed ladies are seen boarding the ship. Next, the famous polar explorer Robert Peary appears on the gangway in a dark jacket, mustache and straw hat. He tips his hat,...- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Film, Video71st Regiment, Camp Wyckoff
Seventy-first Regiment, Camp Wyckoff | Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue: 71st Regiment, N.G.S.N.Y., at Camp Wikoff | Title in Biograph bulletin: Seventy-first Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 2: Seventy-first Regiment, N.Y.V. at Camp Wikoff "Of the thousand and more men who left New York for the Cuban Campaign, scarcely three hundred were able to shoulder their rifles to march before the Biograph camera at Camp Wikoff. The picture shows many of the companies reduced to seven or eight men, and the whole regiment, rank and file is in a sad condition. The picture is remarkably fine in every...- Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - American Mutoscope Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1898
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Film, VideoExcavation for subway
Title in Biograph production log: Excavation for subway at Union Square | Title in AFI catalog: New York's new subway "The film was photographed from a single camera position, elevated to make possible a good view of the excavation of what appears to be a large tunnel. There are cranes, horse-drawn vehicles, as well as electrical and internal combustion machines"--Early motion pictures.- Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bonine, R. (Robert K.)
- Date: 1903
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Film, VideoBuffalo Bill's Wild West parade
Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West The film shows a parade down Fifth Avenue, New York. In the foreground many children, both black and white, can be seen following alongside the parade. The participants in the parade include cowboys, Indians, and soldiers in the uniform of the United States Cavalry on horseback and riding horse-drawn coaches. Buffalo Bill can be seen on horseback, lifting his hat to the crowd.- Contributor: Armitage, F. S. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Film, VideoN.Y. Fire Department returning
New York Fire Department returning | Return of the fire departmant | Return of N.Y. Fire Dept Shows several pieces of horse-drawn fire vehicles in motion: two hook-and-ladders [Frame: 0114, 0905]; two steam pumpers [0373, 1111]; a rescue wagon [0549]. Children hang onto the back of some of the vehicles [0195, 0970].- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoAt the foot of the Flatiron
Windy day at the Flatiron This street level view is of the Broadway side of the Flatiron, or Fuller Building, near the narrow north corner. Filmed on a very windy day, pedestrians of various descriptions are seen passing by the camera, clutching hats and skirts against the wind. According to some New York City historians, this corner was known as the windiest corner of the city, and in the...- Contributor: Weed, A. E. - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1903-01-01
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Film, VideoArrival of emigrants [i.e. immigrants], Ellis Island
Arrival of immigrants, Ellis Island | Arrival of emigrants, Ellis Island Depicts scenes at the Immigration Depot and a nearby dock on Ellis Island. Appears to show, first, a group of immigrants lined up to board a vessel leaving the island, then another group arriving at the island and being directed off of the dock and into the Depot by a uniformed official.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1906-01-01