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Sunday, November 24, 1907

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The sharp click of my shutter snaps against the Sunday morning quiet, catching a dapper gent in a wool frock coat reading a paper that shouts about the Des Moines Plan being legal. It’s a capital morning for a stroll, provided you don't mind the rhythmic thrum of those new electric washing machines vibrating through the basement windows of the finer brownstones. The air smells of crisp November frost and horse liniment, underscored by a group of schoolboys whistling "School Days" as they kick a stray stone down the cobblestones. I’m itching to try one of those new Autochrome plates today to catch the deep mahogany of the passing carriages before the sun dips.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

School Days

Will Cobb & Gus Edwards

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1907

  • Ziegfeld Follies

Tech Check

Electric Washing Machine, Color Photography (Autochrome) & Bakelite (Plastic).

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

43,293 days ago

(118 years, 223 days)