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On the date

Thursday, March 12, 1908

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

Gadzooks, the sunlight hitting the silver-topped cane of a banker today could blind a man, especially with the newsboys shouting about J.P. Morgan fleeing to Italy. I adjust my lens, capturing the sharp silhouette of a woman in a high-collared lace blouse as she pauses by a window display of Rook cards. Above the clatter of horse hooves and the occasional sputtering motor, a nearby gramophone shop bleats out *Shine On, Harvest Moon*; the tune lingers in the crisp March air like the smell of fresh bread. I snap the shutter on a group of men in wool bowlers, their faces etched with the grit of a changing century.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Shine On, Harvest Moon

Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1908

  • Take me out to the ball game

Tech Check

Ford Model T (Assembly Line), Geiger Counter & Cellophane.

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

43,184 days ago

(118 years, 114 days)