From the history of European countries (1910-1937)

An airplane performs a loop-the-loop.

Participants at the start of the 1915 equestrian competition in Austria.

The start of the race.

A view of part of the racetrack during the race (from above).

The first three participants finish, followed by the rest.

The jockey who took first place rides through the crowd of spectators, dismounts, and unsaddles his horse.

Young men and women perform rolls in acrobatic rings on a stadium field in Germany in 1931. German tennis players walk onto the court during the 1931 Wimbledon Championship.

Tennis players on the court during play, fans in the stands.

Tennis players finish a set, shake the referee's hand.

Tennis players after the game.

Team tennis competition for the Davis Cup between Germany and South Africa, views of the court during play.

Refueling the Heyland-Pitsche rocket car before testing on May 3, 1931. The rocket car at the launch pad.

The rocket car takes off and circles a warehouse.

Footage from a football match between Tennis Borussia and Hertha Berlin in 1931, with fans in the stands.

Fans run onto the field after the game.

Touring French artists are greeted at the Berlin train station.

Planes fly over the airfield.

A landed single-seat sports plane is finishing taxiing.

German pilot Elly Beinhorn is greeted at the Berlin airfield after returning from a flight across Africa.

Elly Beinhorn, holding flowers, stands among fans greeting her.

Filling the envelope of a stratospheric balloon designed by Auguste Piccard on May 25, 1937. Auguste Piccard at the airfield.

A gas-filled stratospheric balloon.

Piccard and the airfield crew tighten the cables.

The stratospheric balloon's envelope catches fire and is destroyed in flames.

The process of creating permanent hairstyles for swimmers using hairspray.

Swimmers jump into a pool.

Swimmers dive into the water, their hairstyles remaining intact.

Pages of a French fashion magazine.

A display of women's clothing in France in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Young models model children's clothing.

The arrival of the Belgian royal family at a flower show.

The royal family examines samples of flowers and plants on display.

Fans in the stands of a stadium before the start of the FA Cup match in 1922. King George V shakes hands with football players.

Fragments of a football match.

The King presents the cup to the captain of the winning team.

The captain, cup in hand, descends.

The King greets the football players and fans from the stands.

A panoramic view of one of the stadium stands.

Women in bathing suits sit on a rock in the water, the face of a lifeguard twirling his mustache.

Bathers on the beach.

Bathers take a running dive into the water.

A girl floating on her side.

Contestants in the longest hair competition demonstrate their hair length.

The contestants parade.

The contestants' hair length is measured.

Men read election posters with the candidates' names on stands installed near the walls of buildings during the elections to the National Assembly of France in 1927. Pedestrians on a Parisian street.

A voter arrives at a polling station.

Voters receive ballots.

Voters cast ballots into ballot boxes.

Politicians go to vote.

Voters exit the polling station.

French singer Maurice Chevalier gets out of his car and enters the doors of the polling station.

Chevalier leaves the polling station, shakes hands with the police officer on duty.

Chevalier's face.

The airship "Italia" in the sky over Milan.

The airship landing.

The airship crew.

The airship is towed manually.

The airship is brought into the hangar.

The winner of the 1928 beauty pageant in Galveston, Raymonde Allen, walks along the road near the park.

Raymonde Allen's face.

Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, goes to the polling station during the 1927 parliamentary elections.

The winner of the Miss Miami beauty pageant with a trophy and a bouquet of flowers.

The winner of the Miss Belgium beauty pageant.

The award ceremony for the winner of the 1928 beauty pageant.

Panorama of the market square in front of a church in one of the cities of Carpathian Ruthenia.

A hair buyer at his tent.

Women negotiate with buyers about exchanging their hair for pieces of fabric.

Women show their hair to a buyer.

A buyer cuts hair from customers.

A woman shows off her head after cutting it and laughs.

The woman puts on a headdress, and the buyer thanks her.

Cut hair is delivered to the factory in a hand wheelbarrow; workers collect bundles of hair.

Factory workers sort hair.

Hair is washed in vats by hand.

Workers hang washed hair to dry.

The process of combing dried hair.

Factory workers making hairpieces and wigs by hand.

A worker demonstrates a finished hairpiece.

A woman enters the room, removes her hat and hairpieces.

Balloonists on the airfield before takeoff.

A hot air balloon takes off.

Hot air balloons above the airfield, the balloon rises into the sky.

A panorama of hot air balloons secured to the ground.

The rise of one of the balloons.

Hot air balloons in the sky.

Spectators on the airfield during demonstration flights of hot air balloons.

A military parade of the Prussian Guard in Berlin in the 1910s, citizens salute the infantry and cavalry.

A military parade on a field in the suburbs of Berlin.

The imperial cortege of carriages, accompanied by a mounted escort of the Uhlan Regiment, is greeted.

The cortege passes along an avenue.

The cortege passes along an avenue.

Emperor Wilhelm II and the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein exit their cars after arriving in Primkenau for a hunt.

The hunt participants greet each other.

Wilhelm gets into the carriage.

A wood grouse hunt in Primkenau with the participation of Wilhelm II. The hunters approach the carriages.

The Emperor and the Duke in a carriage.

Wilhelm, the Duke, and other hunt participants at a hunting lodge.

Tiled roofs of buildings.

Inflating the envelope of a German balloon.

A German ship in the dock.

Warships in Kiel Bay.

Wilhelm II on board a warship.

Field Marshal Count Gesellschaft speaks with officers.

Prince Friedrich Leopold during a military review.

A girl presents the prince with a bouquet of flowers.

The unveiling ceremony of a monument.

An airship flies over Berlin.

London police push people away from the site of the terrorist attack in Whitechapel.

Armed police officers on a London street.

An infantry company runs down the street.

Cavalry moves.

A soldier fires from an entrance to a building.

People on the street behind a police cordon.

A view of a warship.

Members of the French Financial Commission.

One of the commission members speaks.

A sleigh ride in the Alps.

A demonstration of new women's clothing from the August Ordenstein fashion house collection.

Women try on new hats in front of a mirror.

Women in dresses from the latest collection while relaxing in a park.

A demonstration of women's dress models and accessories.

Women's headwear styles.