American Mutoscope Biograph Movies

The view from the pilot of an Ulster and Delaware locomotive pulling out of Kingston Union Station through Kingston, NY, in 1906.

Reconstitution of the 1905's eruption of Mount Vesubius

It's another crowded day in the water at Coney Island, with people shoving small boats out of the way so they can have enough room the splash about in...

In this picture the pretty bathing girls are riding their wheels along the hard sand of the beach. One girl who is a novice is learning to ride, and h...

A woman in a dressing gown peeks out her window and then pulls down the shade. She then takes off the gown and proceeds to put on clothes, offering a...

Here, on Grand Trunk's main line between Canada and the US, one of Biograph's early production crews rode the pilot of a locomotive from Sarnia, Ontar...

Willie puts a pack of firecrackers in the flour which Nora is preparing for her dough. A policeman comes in and is entertained by Nora. Willie in the...

Various shots of a car race and the spectators.

A train ride of New York.

I'm not sure why the negotiations that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but President Theodore Roosevel...

Three girls in evening costumes seated about a table blowing bubbles. As the bubbles are formed the young ladies drop them on the table and blow them...

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

"A fascinating skirt dance by the well-known roof garden favorite."

The milk of human unkindness flows in this 1899 revenge comedy from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, in which a put-upon dairymaid throws of...

A view of the work in the big excavation for the Rapid Transit Tunnel at Union Square, New York.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

Views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire.

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...

A train travels along the tracks of the West Shore Railroad in Rockland County, New York. It goes through the Haverstraw Tunnel and out the other side...

The great automobile fire engine on its way to a conflagration, accompanied by hose wagons, etc. A very exciting scene.