A Glimpse of 1922: Selected Photos from the AP Photo Archive
These images from a century ago are part of AP’s extensive archive of more than 37 million photos, a visual history of our world. The AP launched a full photo service in 1928, but has been reporting the news since 1846.
This is a view of the rear of the shield at Canal Street in lower Manhattan, N.Y., and part of the tunnel ring where sandhogs, as excavation workers are known, are working on the Holland Tunnel which will connect New York to Jersey City, N.J., Nov. 25, 1922. (AP Photo)
Skyline of New York City, 1922. (AP Photo)
Boeing built 200 MB-3As, the first fighter aircraft to be produced by the company and the first large order for aircraft placed after World War I in 1922. The MB-3A, designed by the Thomas Morse Airplane Company of Ithaca, New York, was similar to the famous French Spad fighter and the engine was an American production version of the French Hispano-Suiza. Wing span was 26 feet, length 20 feet, height 7 feet 8 inches, and wing area 228.5 square feet. It was powered by a Wright H-3 300-horsepower engine. Gross weight was 2,539 pounds, speed 140 miles-an-hour, landing speed 55 miles-an-hour, and ceiling 19,500 feet. Armament was one, 50 and on .30 calibre guns firing through the propeller. (AP Photo)
The 1922 Lincoln Limousine, specially created for a limited market, emerged after the Ford Motor Co.'s purchase of Lincoln Motor Company in Feb. 1922. (AP Photo)
Broker's Tip, with jockey Don Meade up, is shown covered with roses in the winner's circle after winning the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky., May 6, 1922. (AP Photo)
Pancho Villa (Francisco Villaruel Guilledo), flyweight boxer from the Philippines, shown Sept. 15, 1922. Villa won the American flyweight championship in 1922 and became the first Asian to win the world flyweight championship the following year. He died in 1925 at the age of 23. (AP Photo)
William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, heavyweight champion prizefighter of the world, poses in New York City on April 7, 1922. (AP Photo)
Bill Tilden II, American champion of the Davis Cup match, is congratulated on his victory by Gerald Patterson of Australia (right), Sept. 2, 1922 at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, N.Y. (AP Photo)
President Warren Harding, throwing out the 1st ball at the opening game of the American League season, Senators vs. Yankees, in Washington, April 13, 1922. (AP Photo)
AP Story from the Hilo Daily Tribune, February 2, 1922.
A jumbled mass of aluminum and steel mangled with airship fabric covering the charred bodies of thirty four officers and soldiers is soaked with chemicals and water to extinguish the flames, after the Army dirigible Roma fell 1,000 feet to the ground near Hampton Roads Naval Base in Virginia during a trial trip, Feb. 23, 1922. (AP Photo)
Italian fascists marched on Rome Oct. 28, 1922 after King Vittorio Emanuele II refused premier Luigi Facta's request to send the army to stop them. One day later Benito Mussolini, second from left sash over black shirt, and aides marched in Rome, as the King dismissed the existing Government and appointed Mussolini to head a new one. Note at right, a "camicia nera" (black shirt) holding bolt-studded club fascists used to swing during riots with political opponents. (AP Photo)
Associated Press Service Bulletin, August 1922.
Black nationalist Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the “Provisional President of Africa” during a parades up Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City, Aug. 1922, during opening day exercises of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World. (AP Photo)
A crowd gathers for an anti-prohibiton rally with speakers at Madison Square Park in New York's Flatiron district, 1922. In the background at left is the Flatiron Building. (AP Photo)
Patrol wagon filled with confiscated moonshine is shown next to the wrecked car of bootleggers , in Washington on Jan. 23, 1922. (AP Photo)
A 1922 photo of children of the Russian famine. (AP Photo)
Vladimir Lenin poses for camera, 1922, in Moscow. (AP Photo)
A great military parade on the fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution took place in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 20, 1922, with Leon Trotsky, saluting center, and Lev Kamenev, bearded with soft hat, reviewing the parade. (AP Photo)
The scene of Earl Carnarvon’s wonderful discovery in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt on Dec. 20, 1922. The gateway in the center is that of the tomb of Rameses IX. Below marked with a cross is the excavation leading to the chambers in which treasure worth more than 3 million pounds has already been found. (AP Photo)
Polish film actress Pola Negri with her fiance British film actor Charlie Chaplin, in Hollywood, Oct. 1922.(AP Photo)
Canadian-born American actress Mary Pickford is photographed on Aug. 29, 1922. Pickford is nicknamed "The World's Sweetheart." (AP Photo)
Vaudeville comedian Fanny Brice poses Oct. 3, 1922. (AP Photo)
Chorus girl Hedda Hopper is pictured, Aug. 7, 1922. (AP Photo)
Mary Katherine Campbell, 15, holds the scepter as she poses in the regal robe and crown after becoming Miss America 1922 at the second Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., in Sept. 1922. Campbell, of Columbus, Ohio, won again in 1923, the only one to win twice. (AP Photo)
Expert sharpshooter and performer Annie Oakley comes out of retirement to practice for the Fred Stone Circus and Motor Hippodrome at the Mineola Fair Grounds, Long Island, N.Y., on July 27, 1922. Oakley performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show from 1885 to 1902. (AP Photo)
Rose and Jenny Dolly wave aboard a ship returning them to the U.S., Oct. 3, 1922. (AP Photo)
Photo editing and text by Francesca Pitaro.