The year 1900 saw shifts in how elections were won and a devastating hurricane, but it was a small, simple, and inexpensive device that would forever change how Americans saw themselves.
See all Time Capsule videos.
Music: Danse Dramatique by Dee Yan-Key (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dee_Yan-Key/Trois_Valses_Sentimentales/Dee_Yan-Key_-_Danse_Dramatique) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Pine Apple Rag (Scott Joplin Piano Roll) by Scott Joplin Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Frog_Legs_Ragtime_Era_Favorites/Scott_Joplin_-_08_-_Pine_Apple_Rag_1908_piano_roll
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
Become a Saturday Evening Post member and enjoy unlimited access. Subscribe now
Comments
My Mother had A brownie box camera and many of our early family pictures were taken on it. A few years ago I found old pictures in a forgotten box containing family mementos; I took them to a photo store and they were able to digitalize & print them – I’m not sure of the film but it could have been 127 film. The pictures are fine – some a bit blurry but not bad for early pictures.
I really enjoy the SEP magazine and the vintage videos.
Always enjoy actual SEP magazine & also these emails.
Always enjoy actual SEP magazine & also these emails. THanks again for being such a fine magazine!
Such a fascinating look at an important month 119 years ago. I recall a feature the Post did some years back on shortening attention spans, in which the Class-4 Galveston hurricane (claiming 8-12,000 lives) was so quickly forgotten by the public; within a week. Really shocking to me then, and again now. That might have been the one where I commented pretty soon attention spans will be down to the level of a flea. We are there now, sadly.
It appears the Kodak Box/Brownie camera was (for that time) probably a bigger phenomenon comparably than today’s expensive iPhones are to the present. Equally significant was the Post’s role as THE #1 media/ad media in the country, making THOSE Brownies hotter than the ‘other kind’ right out of the oven!