From ancient glass plates to C.A.P.(Computer Aided Photography): the oldest pictures of the present collection go back to the middle or end of the 19th century; on some of them you may recognize Theodor Roosevelt on horse-back (2x); San Francisco's City Hall after an earthquake and a fire; an American coal mine; Japanese maidens; American firemen in 1902; San Francisco's Chinatown; a great spinning room; the Parisian Moulin Rouge and Eiffel Tower (1900) ; the Niagara Falls; women washing clothes at Nice, France; a bridge in Brooklyn, New York; a fountain in Cuzco, Peru; a marine crew in Cap Town, another marine crew on a Russian ship, the Colorado Gran Canyon, a Gobelins spinningroom, black American soldiers, a she-barber, etc.
