1910-1919 |
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Literature |
1910 |
"Come Josephine in my Flying Machine" (RealAudio from Dismuke.org)
"Temptation Rag" (Prince's Military Band) (RealAudio from Dismuke.org)
"Reuben Rag" (Sophie Tucker)(RealAudio file from a wax cylinder recording at Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders.)
"Wild Cherries Rag" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio from Dismuke.org)
"The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks" (Nora Bayes; date uncertain; Archive.org) |
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Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
Deaths of Mark Twain (b. 1835), Rebecca Harding Davis (b. 1831), and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (b. 1862)
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1911 |
"Grandfather's Clock" (Hayden Quartet; 1908-1913)
"Oceana Roll"(RealAudio from Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives) |
White Roses (Mary Pickford)
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Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt
24 January. Progressive journalist and popular novelist David Graham Phillips (b. 1867) is shot and killed outside the Princeton Club in New York.
The Masses (New York), 1911-1918 |
1912 |
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (are there any more at home like you?)" (Victor Opera Light Sextette; 1908-1913)
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (Ada Jones from archive.org)
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An Unseen Enemy (Lillian Gish; dir. D. W. Griffith)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (dir. D. W. Griffith)
The New York Hat (Mary Pickford; titles by Anita Loos)
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Edith Wharton, The Reef
Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge
Theodore Dreiser, The Financier
Sui-Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton), Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage
James Weldon Johson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Mary Antin,The Promised Land
Founding of Poetry magazine. |
1913 |
"You Made Me Love You" (Al Jolson)
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" (written by Ballard McDonald and Harry Carroll), performed by Walter Van Brunt (Library of Congress)
"Put on Your Slippers and Fill Up Your Pipe"(RealAudio from Robert's Old Schmaltz Archives)
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Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
Ellen Glasgow, Virginia
Robert Frost, A Boy's Will
Jack London, The Valley of the Moon
Henry James, A Small Boy and Others
Oscar Micheaux, The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
Vanity Fair (1913-1936) |
1914 |
"Sympathy Waltz" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"Irresistible--Tango Argentine" (Victor Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" (American Quartet) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"I Want to Go Back to Michigan" (written by Irving Berlin), performed by Billy Murray and Chorus (Library of Congress)
"Ball In' the Jack" (National Promenade Band at archive.org)
"Aba-Daba Honeymoon" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress)
"The Raggedy Man" (poem by James Whitcomb Reilly)
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Mabel at the Wheel (Charlie Chaplin)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (D. W. Griffith)
Judith of Bethulia (D. W. Griffith)
A Good Little Devil (Mary Pickford)
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Theodore Dreiser, The Titan
Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother
Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Vachel Lindsay, The Congo
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Frank Norris, Vandover and the Brute
Sinclair Lewis, Our Mr. Wrenn
Ambrose Bierce (b. 1842) disappears in Mexico and is presumed dead.
Death of S. Weir Mitchell (b. 1829)
Death of Sui-Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
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1915 |
 "Nola" (Novelty ragtime tune by Felix Arndt; MIDI file)
Desperate Desmond (vaudeville routine by Frederick Duprez)
"Keep the Home Fires Burning" (Ivor Novello; date unknown) (RealAudio from the Library of Congress )
"Gasoline Gus and his Jitney Bus" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress )
"My Lady of the Telephone" (Edison recording at archive.org)
"Moonlight Bay" (Premier Quartet at archive.org)
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The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin)
The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
Rags (Mary Pickford)
Regeneration (dir. Raoul Walsh)
A Fool There Was (starring "vamp" Theda Bara)
Chaplin, The Bank
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle; Mack Sennett)(Library of Congress; new URL)
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T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
Margaret Deland, Around Old Chester
Theodore Dreiser, The "Genius"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Bent Twig
Robert Frost, North of Boston |
1916 |
"Guatemala-Panama March" (The Hurtado Bros. Royal Marimba Band of Guatemala) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"The Globe Trot" (Victor Military Band)(RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress)
"Are You from Dixie?"(RealAudio from the Library of Congress) |
The Rink (Charlie Chaplin)
The Pawnshop (Charlie Chaplin)
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (Douglas Fairbanks) 
Intolerance (D. W. Griffith)
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Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems
Sherwood Anderson, Windy McPherson's Son
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
William Dean Howells, The Leatherwood God
Grace King, The Pleasant Ways of St. Medard
Amy Lowell, Men, women, and Ghosts
Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al
Deaths of Henry James (b. 1843), Jack London (b. 1876), and Richard Harding Davis (b. 1864) |
1917 |
Dixieland "Jass" Band One-Step(RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"Over There" (written by George M. Cohan), performed by Billy Murray
"Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" (Arthur Fields; date uncertain) (Note Sinclair Lewis's use of this song in Dodsworth)
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Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin)
The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin)
Wild and Woolly (Douglas Fairbanks)
The Poor Little Rich Girl and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Mary Pickford)
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Hamlin Garland, A Son of the Middle Border
Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky
Sinclair Lewis, The Job
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence
T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Edith Wharton, Summer
Oscar Micheaux, The Homesteader
Pulitzer Prizes established. |
1918 |
 "Au Revoir but Not Goodbye" (Henry Burr) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"My Dough Boy" (One-Step) (Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (performed by Arthur Fields; excerpt) (RealAudio clip from www.besmark.com)
"Over There" (Enrico Caruso at archive.org)
"Over There" (Nora Bayes, the singer usually associated with this song, at archive.org)
"Mazel Tov" ( I. J. Hochman's Yiddisher Orchestra at archive.org)
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Shoulder Arms (Charlie Chaplin)
Hearts of the World (D. W. Griffith)
The House of Mirth (from the novel by Edith Wharton; dir. Albert Capellani)
Old Wives for New (from the novel by David Graham Phillips; dir. C. B. DeMille)
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Willa Cather, My Antonia
Edith Wharton, The Marne
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edgewater People
Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons
O. Henry Award for the short story established |
1919 |
 "Salvator Rosa - Mia piccireila" (Enrico Caruso) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"Lucille" (Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band ) (RealAudio file from Dismuke's Site.)
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (RealAudio from the Library of Congress)
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)" sung by Nora Bayes; archive.org)
"Ja-Da" (archive.org)
"Nobody" (Bert Williams) (archive.org)
"Suicide Blues" (Arthur Collins at archive.org)
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Sunnyside (Charlie Chaplin)
His Majesty, the American (Douglas Fairbanks)
Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith)
Daddy Long Legs (Mary Pickford)
Male and Female (Gloria Swanson; version of G. B. Shaw's The Admirable Crichton dir. Cecil B. DeMille)
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Pulitzer Prizes: For literature--Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons; for biography--Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio |
