Vol. 1900s · No. 1907 · PRICE 25¢
The 1907 Times
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October 1907 | Wall Street, USA
Panic, Plastics, Picasso, and the Pacific Fleet
The year 1907 reshaped global finance through a sudden Wall Street panic while ushering in modern art, plastic, and scouting. From the high seas to the artist's studio, old empires and rising powers raced toward an industrialized future.
Pablo Picasso Paints 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'
Pablo Picasso shocked the art world with a radical, proto-Cubist canvas depicting five fractured female figures that forever changed modern painting.
The First Boy Scout Camp on Brownsea Island
Robert Baden-Powell led twenty boys through an experimental outdoor camp on Brownsea Island, launching what would become a global youth movement.
Also this year
The Great White Fleet Embarks on World Tour
December 16, 1907 | Naval History
President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched sixteen gleaming American battleships on a fourteen-month circumnavigation of the globe to showcase US naval power.
The Peking to Paris Motor Race
June–August 1907 | Automotive
Prince Scipione Borghese emerged victorious after navigating 9,000 miles of treacherous dirt roads, mountain passes, and deserts in an Itala automobile.
Invention of Bakelite Synthetic Plastic
1907 | New York, USA | Chemistry
Belgian-born chemist Leo Baekeland created Bakelite, the world’s first fully synthetic plastic, inaugurating a revolutionary era of durable mass-produced materials.
Lumière Brothers Launch Autochrome Color Photography
1907 | France | Photography
Auguste and Louis Lumière brought the first practical color photography system to the market, allowing photographers to capture vivid natural hues on glass plates.
Oklahoma Enters the Union as the 46th State
November 16, 1907 | Oklahoma, USA
Oklahoma merged Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th US state, marking a pivotal moment in American westward expansion.