the 1920's

Never Ladder

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Caitlin Stryker
As hemlines rose with the coming fashion of flappers, the need to where stockings or nylons became a huge market for the textile industries. Here these two young ladies are advertising Durasil stockings in this rather unique fashion. I thought how strange it would be to see people today walking around with big advertisments on their backs!
(http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/2008/04/vintage-ambient.html)

JAZZ!

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Caitlin Stryker
Along with the Harlem Renaissance, the black community of America found its voice in music in the form of jazz. Also Known as "the Jazz Age", the 1920's brought the birth of professional jazz singers such as Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. People all over the nation would travel to places like the Cotton Club to enjoy a  night of sweet jazz.
(http://www.glogster.com/media/2/11/74/1/11740148.jpg
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Life with the Automobile

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Caitlin Stryker
As more and more Americans were able to afford cars, they began to experience the new freedoms that automobiles brought along. Now they could travel wherever they wanted when ever they wanted. Known to some as "strugglebuggies", cars in the 1920's played a big role in American life.
(http://shabbychicdiva4ever.blogspot.com/2011/01/wednesday-1920s-love.html)

Going, going...gone!

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Caitlin Stryker
Babe Ruth as he hits another homer. The Sultan of Swat's amazing batting record drew crowds from all over and greatly increased the popularity of baseball. I like this picture because you can see Babe Ruth following the ball after his swing.
(http://baldpunk.com/2009/12/22/bigger-than-the-babe)

Dances

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Nicolette Tosunian-
Dance tickets, ca. 1920s. American Zionists developed a wide range of cultural activities to bring together supporters and to raise funds for Jewish settlements in Palestine. Dances were popular public events, as were picnics, rallies, and parades.
(http://www.nmajh.org/images/011.htm)

hairstyles (woman and children)

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Nicolette Tosunian-
It all started in 1915 with the debut of the Castle Bob, named after the celebrated ballroom dancer Irene Castle. While cutting her hair for convenience, little would she know that she would forever be associated with triggering a revolution in 20th-century hair fashion. The Castle Bob would be the first indication of things to come ¾ the rage of short hair.
(http://www.hairarchives.com/private/1920s.htm)


road construction

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Nicolette Tosunian-
Montana Department of Transportation Collection documents road construction and maintenance from the 1920's to the 1970's, and contains view of governors, legislative activities and the Constitutional Convention of 1972.

(http://montanahistoricalsociety.org/research/library/collections.asp)

Sewer

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Nicolette Tosunian-
Early sewer maintenance activities in Iowa, 1920s. The man standing in photo is Ole Bredeson, the great-grandfather of Mark S. Holstad.
(http://www.sewerhistory.org/grfx/maint/swr_veh2.htm)


Prohibition?

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Bryanna Chrisp-
    Ironically enough, just three years into the Prohibition era, this bottle was designed. Liquor was fashionable as well as profitable throughout the 1920's. Clearly, the will of the people is stronger than the will of the government. http://www.thesmalls.com/cuttysark/the-real-mccoy/index.html 

Speakeasy

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Bryanna Chrisp-
Speakeasies were demonstrations of the carefree mentality of 1920's. They exposed disregard for law and for consequences of the law. Based upon the fact that millions of people attended speakeasy's throughout Prohibition era, the governments inability to control society's consumption of achohol was evident. http://www.thesmalls.com/cuttysark/the-real-mccoy/index.html

Electric Shock

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Bryanna Chrispy-
    Ruth Snyder, the conspirator/assassin of her late husband, is pictured, here, while electricuted to death. Her story was a subject of public obsession. At her execution no photography was permitted, but a reporter disguised his camara under his pant leg and took the picture as the electricity began to flow. Soon after the picture hit the press.  Corporal punishment  via electric chair was a rarity at the time, as well as hostile crime from a seemingly normal housewife. 
   ( http://www.prairieghosts.com/ruth_judd.html)

black Thursday

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Roman. (0) )
In October  of 1929, the stock market began to slow down. After all of the reckless spending of  life savings into stocks of a market that would never  fail. Americans were getting greedy; and taking out loans to buy their get rich tickets. Credit was being given out like candy out of a van with no windows; and on October 24, 1929, the "candy" turned sour. There was a rush to pull out all of the money invested in stocks and save yourself.  At the end of that day, the stock exchange had lost four billion dollars; kick starting the great depression.
http://theomahaproject.org/module_display.php?mod_id=117&review=yes

Jazz babe

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Bryanna Chrisp-
This photo depicts a young woman dressed in typical "vamp" wear.  So many young women of the 1920's dressed in this manner, uniformly untraditional. This photo is a reflection upon the new found freedom that women began to grasp, an independence from expectations of old, but a new dependence on popular culture for descision-making and mindset from appearance to mannerisms and to terminology , as well as gaining an understanding of socially acceptable behavior.   
(http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html)

a flapper applying lipstick

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Roman. (0) )
Along with the short hair and extravagant jewelry the use of make up became more and more popular with the 20's female culture.  As females became more obsessed with shaping their lips the first mirrored lipstick container was created.
http://glamourdaze.blogspot.com/2009/11/lipstick-glamour-history-of-lip-makeup.html

Still waters run deep

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Roman. (0) )
As the prohibition era began; citizens were outraged that their freedom to drink alcohol was taken away. Thus the speakeasy was born. Speakeasies were underground drinking establishments where alcohol was smuggled, and patrons "spoke easy" to avoid being busted.
http://jolienadine.com/blog/tag/the-hall-at-palihouse/


Alcohol is the problem

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Roman. (0) )
During the 1920's there was a strong movement against the recreational use of alcohol; supported by strong religious females, whom were seeing families being torn apart from it. Although their intentions may have been good, the nearly singlehandedly caused an era of corruption.
http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/10/a-hundred-miles-of-dry-religion-and-the-persistence-of-prohibition-in-the-u-s-states/

Flask in a Garter

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Kelsey Chittum
Women during the 1920s would find different ways to smuggle alcohol. The most comon way was to hide a flask in their garter, which was used to hold their stockings up. Women would rarley be caught with a flask in their garter because police officers never thought to look their or let alone never though of a woman smuggling alcohol.
(http://www.vintageperiods.com/flappers.php)


Women's suffrage

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Kelsey Chittum

In 1920 The National Women's Party picketed the White House and made various banners to get President Wilson's attention. The NWP also held other large demonstrations in the fight for women's rights. Many of the women were arrested and continued to fight in prison by going on hunger strikes.
(http://www.vintageperiods.com/suffrage.php)


Bathing Suits 

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Kelsey Chittum
This photo shows how bathing suits changed during the 1920s. Women in previous years wore bathing suits that covered the same amount of body as did there clothing. The young teens of the twenties not only wore more revealing clothing, but their bathing suits got remarkably shorter. 
(http://www.old-picture.com/united-states-history-1900s---1930s/Bathing-Suits-1920s-the.htm)

Black Tuesday

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Kelsey Chittum
Stock Market crash of 1929, also referred to as Black Tuesday, marked the start of the Great Depression which would continue for over ten years. 
( http://www.themoneyalert.com/stockmarketcrashof1929.html)

Main Street

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  -Zachary Brown-
A 1920's main street.
(http://www.cmstory.org/exhibit/legacy/images/limages/1920sa.htm)

Georgetown-Lewes Highway in the 1920s

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 -Zachary Brown-
A major highway today, as it appeared in the 1920's.

(http://www.deldot.gov/information/media_gallery/2002/85th/pictorial/gtwn-lewes-hwy-1920.shtml)

1920's Flapper

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 -Zachary Brown-

A Flapper from the 1920's era.

(http://www.tomandrodna.com/Idaho.htm)

1920's radios

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 -Zachary Brown-

 Listening to the radio in the 1920's

(http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/public/default.asp?t=1&m=1&c=34&s=264&ai=75187&arch=y&ssd=10/1/2008%2012:01:00%20PM)

the great Gatsby 

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Paul HwangThe novel, The Great Gatsby was written and first published in 1925 by an American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel depicts the life in the 1920's. The book takes place in the summer of 1911. It shows how society enjoyed prosperity during the, "roaring" 1920's. At the same time the ban of alcohol was mandated by the 18th amendment. It depicts how people made millions of dollars off bootlegging illegal  alcohol. This novel is said to be one of the greatest American novels.  
(http://www.lonestar.edu/library/kin_GreatGatsby.htm)

Women's international league for peace and Freedom 

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Paul Hwang
This photography was taken in the 1920's at a No more war demonstration. This photo shows the women's international league  for peace and freedom demonstrating their hatred against war down the streets of Philadelphia. The members in this organization are mostly minorities. 
(http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/wilpfexhibit/1920to1929/1920to1929.htm)

Electric front strike typewriter 

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Paul Hwang
This photo shows two men and one woman working on a rolled-top desk using the first electric front strike typewriter. This machine was the first electric typewriter that was a dictation transcribing machine. Not only does this picture show the very first typewriter, but also shows the typical woman outside of her natural environment, and now has joined the men in their jobs. 
(http://www.officemuseum.com/photo_gallery_1920s_1930s.htm)

Women of the 1920's

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Paul Hwang
This photo was taken in Chesapeake Bay. This photography shows the new clothing for women in the 1920's. This Shows the slow process of women freeing themselves from their shell. The woman to the right of the picture was fined $25 for the failure of wearing shoes, and stockings to the bay. She fought the ticket in Prince Fredrick Courthouse, and lost her appeal. 
http://www.calvert.lib.md.us/history/photos_1920-1929.htm)

Prohibition

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Andrew Ramirez
Prohibition made conditions worse in the cities. Crime increased and also the consumption of alcohol increased since people always break the rules in spite.


(http://www.scribd.com/doc/5984449/famousphotos)

The Jazz Singer

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Andrew Ramirez
The Jazz Singer is an important movie to remember since it was the first full length talking movie. The move stars Jackie Rabinowiltz (Al Jolson).



(http://www.scribd.com/doc/5984449/famousphotos)

Electric stove

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Andrew Ramirez
The electric stove was manufactured by General Electric in the 1920s.  General Electric (GE) also launched one of the first radio stations .





(http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/businesses/G-L/General-Electric-Inc.html)

The Kid

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Andrew Ramirez
The movie kid was a huge success and was the second-highest grossing film in 1921. The movie is about Charlie Chaplin finding an abandoned baby in an alley and raising it so they can do scams together.