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On the date

Monday, May 29, 1911

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The sun catches the sharp creases of a wool frock coat as the morning rush spills past my lens, a blur of hobble skirts and flat caps against the soot-stained brick. I drop a nickel for the early edition, the ink staining my fingertips while I marvel at how **TWO GET 401 MILES IN PARIS-TURIN RACE; Garros and Beaumont Land at Avignon at the End of the First Day's Flight.** The mechanical roar of those engines feels as near as the new electric starters clicking nearby, making every silhouette look sharper, more modern. It’s a time for deeds not words, as I frame the glint of a passing hydroplane’s shadow against the city’s rising steel spine.

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The Headlines

TWO GET 401 MILES IN PARIS-TURIN RACE; Garros and Beaumont Land at Avignon at the End of the First Day's Flight.

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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

42,011 days ago

(115 years, 36 days)