I don’t know much about the provenance of this photograph, other than that it was taken in Atlanta about a hundred years ago. What is clear from their expressions, however, is that the two girls in the foreground obviously understand the magic of radio. Chances are, they had never heard a radio before, but when they heard music coming out of the headphones, they realized that the world had changed. I’m guessing their families were among the first on their block to get their own radio set.

Not everyone gets the magic, though. Many of the others seem a bit skeptical about this new contraption. All I know about this picture is that it appeared a hundred years ago this month on the cover of the June 1920 issue of Wireless Age, and that the caption reads, “members of an Atlanta club who danced to music received by wireless ‘phone.”