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On the date

Wednesday, February 8, 1911

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile

The slush of February seeped through my heavy wool trousers as I crouched to snap a group of suffragettes, their stiff linen sashes emblazoned with "votes for women" fluttering in the biting wind. A newsboy nearby shivers in his rough corduroy cap, shouting over the din of the Elevated about German bullets that light up the dark like ghosts. From the open door of a music hall, the brassy swing of *Alexander's Ragtime Band* spills out, making me hum as I thumb the smooth, celluloid edge of my plate holder. I pass a window display of Rook card games, their glossy cardstock catching the pale winter light beside a poster for those new-fangled hydroplanes.

Memories from that day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1911

  • Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Tech Check

Air Mail, Hydroplane & Electric Starter for Cars.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

42,121 days ago

(115 years, 146 days)