United States History 1900s - 1930s

 

This Site:

Home

Defining Moments

Picture Collections

Themed Collections

Picture of the Day

Site Search

Links

Contact

 

Click on the thumbnails below to be taken to a higher resolution version of the image, with a detailed description.  Use the navigation buttons at the bottom to navigate the the next/previous group of thumbnails.

French Soldier with Gas Mask

French Soldier with Gas Mask

Pouring whiskey into a

Pouring whiskey into a Sewer During Prohibition

Quanah Parker, Comanche Indian

Quanah Parker, Comanche Indian Chief

Moonshine Still

Moonshine Still

"Waiting for the President"

Bootlegger Car Chase and Crash

Bootlegger Car Chase and Crash

Two firemen with fire

Two firemen with fire engine

Troop Trains

World War I Soldiers on Train

Bootleg Whiskey

Bootleg Whiskey

President Coolidge Inaugural Parade

President Coolidge Inaugural Parade

Soda Fountain

Soda Fountain

Horse Drawn Fire Engine

Horse Drawn Fire Engine

Red wood logs on

Red wood logs on train on way from forest to mill

Young oyster shuckers, Port

Young oyster shuckers, Port Royal, S.C.

Madame Curie

Madame Curie

Money

Money

Bootleg Still

Bootleg Still

Moonshiners

Moonshiners

Show Window

Raleigh Haberdasher show window, Washington, D.C.

Mailman emptying mailbox, automobile

Mailman

Black Newspaper Boy

Black Newspaper Boy

Bread Line

Bread Line

Auto Race

Auto racing in or near Washington, D.C.

Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length

Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing up in car, waving hat

Unknown Soldier

Casket of the Unknown Soldier

Mail Trucks

Mail Trucks

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Cash

Treasury. A $75,000 wheelbarrow of mutilated money on way to vaults. Employee in picture has wheeled barrow 50 years

First Phonograph

Emile Berliner, with the model of the first phonograph machine which he invented

Delivery Truck

Delivery Truck

Printing telegraph

Printing telegraph

President Coolidge in Car

President Coolidge

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Truck load of beef

Truck load of beef being delivered to Central Market, Washington, D.C.; black driver

U.S. Navy Pilots

U.S. Navy Pilots

President Harding Funeral

President Harding Funeral

Woodrow Wilson, Warren G.

Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Philander Knox, and Joseph Cannon, in convertible, March 4, 1921

World War I Wounded Soldier

World War I Wounded Soldier

Miss Ruth Muskrat, a

Miss Ruth Muskrat, a Cherokee Indian, presents Mr. Coolidge with a copy of The Red Man in the United States, a survey of the present day American Indian

Postage Stamps

Postage Stamps

 

 

 

 

Site Copyright © 2006-2008 www.old-picture.com.    For Questions or comments about this collection, contact curator@old-picture.com

privacy policy