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On the date

Sunday, July 5, 1908

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The sky is an impossible, eerie pink at midnight, casting a ghostly glow over the velvet waistcoats and stiff linen collars of the crowds lingering in the London streets. I adjust my lens to capture the shimmering reflection of this strange "dawn" off a candy wrapper's new **Cellophane** crinkle, a sight truly **capital** for any man with an eye for light. While the high-society blockheads chatter about the **Geiger Counter** or the rumble of the new **Ford Model T** assembly lines across the pond, I’m focused on the silhouettes. The way this midnight sun catches the lace of a parasol makes the whole city look like a dream frozen in silver nitrate.

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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

43,069 days ago

(117 years, 364 days)