1900s Archives - Click Americana

Give me your tired, your poor: The story of the Statue of Liberty’s poem (1903)

On the inside of the pedestal of the statute of Liberty Enlightening the World has been placed a bronze memorial tablet bearing Emma Lazarus's name and the sonnet she wrote twenty years ago, dedicated to the statue.

Summer splendor: Hotel Majestic’s roof garden (1903)

The Majestic is an attractive house at all times of the year, but it is additionally so in the summer, because of its beautiful roof garden.

Coney Island beach scenes (1890s-1920s)

Scene on the beach (1890s) Bathing at Coney Island, New York (1900) Coney Island in the early 1900s On the beach at Coney Island (1902) Coney Island, NY (1905) ... Read more...

Summer swimming in New York (1909)

Summer swimming in NYC Gotham's youth are fortunate in the number of opportunities for swimming which the city's configuration presents. Many a graceful and expert diver is developed along our dirty waterfront... Read more...

Traveling requisites for the summer vacationist (1906)

Traveling requisites for the summer vacationist The trunk and traveling-bag maker is a wide awake man. He's got to be so long as folks travel and become crankier every year, demanding comforts and conve... Read more...

A day with Helen Keller (1906)

A Day With Helen Keller by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin Sometimes we dream, or like to imagine, that we are something different from what we are. By a dismal freak of fancy we conceive ourselves, in such a d... Read more...

Roller coasters of the early 20th century

Love old amusement parks? For a closer look at any of these 9 vintage roller coasters from the early 1900s -- in New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts -- just click on the picture for a larger view. Rol... Read more...

The thrills of book hunting (1906)

The thrills of book hunting One unacquainted with the subject would hardly compare the sport of hunting in the fields with that of delving around musty shelves and storerooms in search of rare and valuable... Read more...

When to leave calling cards after a party (1902)

When to leave calling cards after an entertainment On the subject of leaving cards, there is always much to be said. When should cards be left and when should calls be made after entertainments are quest... Read more...

The woman of the future (1900)

The woman of the future by Mrs I Lowenberg, President Philomath Club Every age from the dawn of civilization has brought forth new developments in which woman has always played an important part. Her impres... Read more...

Thanksgiving greetings: Antique postcards (1900s)

These six vintage postcards all feature Thanksgiving scenes with children -- and, in all but one, a huge turkey! Good wishes for Thanksgiving day Thanksgiving greetings Thanksgiving greetings Gr... Read more...

How to craft clever Christmas ornaments from paper! (1960)

So pretty, such fun to do! One of the nicest Christmas customs we know is having both young and old make ornaments for the tree! These are paper -- so simple and imaginative, you'll want to pack them away ... Read more...

Chicago Cubs win World Series baseball championship (1908)

Chicago Team Without Peer in the World Recent World's Series Showed Cubs Utterly Outclassed American League Rivals. By James Crusinberry No one now doubts the superiority of the Chicago Cubs over all o... Read more...

Vintage vacuum cleaners from Hoover

Hoover Suction Sweeper (patented 1908) Hoover for sanitary cleaning (1920) Immaculate rugs are safe playgrounds for the children. Clean thoroughly to protect childhood's precious health. Beat out ... Read more...

Is modern society deteriorating? (1901)

Is modern society deteriorating? By the Countess of Malmesbury "It be true that many of the virtues are modern, it is certain that all the vices are ancient." Such was the qualified and doubtful praise ... Read more...

NYC heat wave: Hot weather street scenes (early 1900s)

Hot weather in NYC means cooling off in a fountain, taking the kids to park to cool down, and more adventures in the era before air conditioning.

The up-to-date summer hostess (1906)

The summer hostess The summer hostess domiciled by the sea or in the country finds that even more people partake of her hospitality in summer than in winter. Her entertaining never ceases, formally or infor... Read more...

Sensible summer curtains (1902)

The sensible arrangement of summer window hangings Philosophers aver that the window often proclaims the householder. There is a moral in this for window decorators. Perchance the windows that exhibit the... Read more...

15 vintage Easter cards (1900-1924)

Happy Easter! Here is a collection of 15 colorful Easter postcards from the early twentieth century! These were especially popular from around 1900 to around 1915, and, as this gallery demonstrates, such greet... Read more...

All aboard for the moon! (1908)

All aboard for the moon! The conquest of the air is assured now for interplanetary space Click here to see a larger version In a recent number of the Contemporary Review, there appeared an article by Col. ... Read more...

The metric system is the way of the future (1900)

We thought the metric system was just something pitched to -- and largely ignored by -- recent generations of schoolchildren. Wrong! It's actually been pitched to and ignored by people for about two hundred yea... Read more...

Study your husband to prevent divorce (1903)

Study your husband A little knowledge will prevent divorce New course presented by a college to do away with marital differences, which has some good points if it does not cover all the points on the subject.... Read more...

Happy new year postcards: 1907-1911

Happy New Year! Here are some vintage postcards sent by people in the first part of the 1900s to wish friends and family a happy new year! ... Read more...

Was Albert Einstein a space alien? (2005)

Was Einstein a space alien? From NASA One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized physics. Albert Einstein was exhausted. For the third night in a row, his baby son Hans, crying, kept the hou... Read more...

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