Beautiful 19th Century Moving Photos

Medicine Bottle awaits his execution, Fort Snelling, circa 1864.

Peering down the river wharf, Savannah, circa 1895.

American beauty on the steep banks of Niagara Falls, circa 1899.


A woman watches an arriving stage coach, Yellowstone, circa 1886.


A little boy & his toys, New Hampshire, circa 1876.


Photographer and phantom pets at Pinogana, Panama, circa 1870.


City folks on the promenade, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, circa 1895.

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Digitalized Moving Images from the Mid 1800's to Early 1900's

Using gif animation trickery, Joshua Heineman has been adding an extra dimensions to old pictures from the New York Public Library. I really love these images from the mid 1800's to the early 1900's USA. I've had a long and simmering love affair with history and archeology and I find these images from a younger United States during the Industrial Revolution really engaging.

1. Photographer 18 stories above Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1906
2. Broadway, New York City, circa 1860
3.“Powder monkey” on the Pawnee, American civil war, circa 1863
4.Vine-covered structure in Central Park, New York City, circa 1882
5.Cooking classes at Proximity Cotton Mill, North Carolina, 1909
6.Chinatown opium den, San Francisco, circa 1884
7.Chinatown, San Francisco, circa 1884

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