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On the date

Monday, November 26, 1917

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The slush on Broadway catches the flicker of the news ticker, screaming of fierce night battles and tanks stalled in the mud of France. I aim my lens at a dame struggling with a **modern zipper** on her heavy wool coat, a sharp contrast to the **lousy** weather that’s turning every bowler hat into a sodden mess. Nearby, a newsie bellows about **drone torpedoes** while a child clutches a box of Lincoln Logs, his eyes wide at the grainy headlines of the carnage at Cambrai. The flash powder ignites, freezing a silhouette of grit and khaki against the flickering shadows of the Great War.

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The Headlines

PART OF VILLAGE IS HELD.; Changed Hands Three Times in Desperate Waves of Attack. FIERCE BATTLE AT NIGHT Germans Send In Guard Troops and Give Battle to British in the Open. HAIG COMMENDS HIS TROOPS Issues Order Congratulating Gen. Byng and His Men for "Splendid Results." Fighting on Open Ground. Germans Rush Up Artillery. Men Inside Tanks Suffered.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Over There

George M. Cohan

The must-have

Lincoln Logs

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1917

  • Uncle Sam wants YOU

Tech Check

Modern Zipper & Drone Torpedoes.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

39,639 days ago

(108 years, 219 days)