James H. White Movies

Interesting types of Mexicans watch the arrivals by the train. Sombreros, serapes and mantillas give the scene a very distinctive foreign appearance.

Filmed off the coast of Rhode Island, this Edison short takes place on the U.S. torpedo boat Morris as we see some men loading up a torpedo that is...

Another entry in Edison's "Southern Pacific Company Series", which pretty much had cameramen hanging around the train line just shooting anything...

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

Branding calves in 1898.

This picture opens with the young cadets climbing the rigging and going through the sail drill on board the famous historic ship "Constellation."...

Showing Central Park in the background.

On Saturday morning, August 20, 1898, six grim battleships of Admiral Sampson's Squadron...

Seagulls flock around a moving ferryboat in San Francisco Bay in this 2-shot short film.

At the Armour & Co. Chicago yard. Two railroad tracks dominate the center and right half of the frame as we look down about 40 meters where an...

People walking around the campus. The view shows an immense arch in the background through which are seen coming groups of students, some walking,...

"Grandpa sits nodding in his armchair in the kitchen, where a sout, jolly washerwoman is washing clothes. While the woman leaves the tub to talk to a...

Two delinquent clerks are seated in a broker's office engaged in a game of cards. The boss suddenly appears walking through the corridor. The cards...

“One of the most interesting places in the vicinity of Niagara Falls is the Whirlpool Rapids, where the immense volume of water which passes...

In front of each bare headed woman is a flat rock, used as a wash board. Stream of water near by.

From Edison films catalog: The water breaks over the rocks, and is dashed into silvery spray, high into the air. Exceptionally fine water effects.

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

George Dewey was an admiral in the U.S. Navy who is best remembered for his victory at Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, which he won...

Great horse racing on the famous Hartford track, showing start and finish of a 2.04 3/4 heat run by the fastest harness horse in the world, John R....

Shows canal running through the suburban village of Santa Anita. Men and women pole their flat-bottom boats along, loaded down with garden produce.