American women swim in black sleeveless dresses and long, full-length leggings. Men swim in tank tops and knee-length shorts.

An advertisement in the Columbia, S.C., State newspaper offers a "sack business suit; worn by most business men of your acquaintance" for $8.50.

The Olds Motor Works turns out 4,000 Curved Dash Runabouts, up from 450 in 1901, and shows a profit of $600,000.

Frank Lloyd Wright modernizes Chicago's Rookery.

Ninety-three percent of America's 2.3 million miles of roads are little better than plain dirt paths.

Louis Sullivan completes the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago.

The Greene brothers build their most famous bungalow, the Bandini bungalow, in Pasadena, California.

Furniture designer Charles Renne Mackintosh builds a modern, geometric high-back chair that marks a radical break from the historical tastes of the Victorians.

The Chadwick gasoline-powered car is introduced by engineer Lee Sherman Chadwick; it can reach a speed of sixty miles per hour and sells...