What was it like to live in the 1920's? Learn about Flappers, Fashion, Music, Politics, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the following Depression years.
Discover what it was like to live under Prohibition or how to dance the Charleston.
View the rapid progress made in transportation by automobiles, trains, ocean liners, airships and aeroplanes. All this and more can be found on 1920-30.com.
The information, taken largely from books and periodicals of the period, captures how life was in the U.S.A and the World during the 1920's - a time that is often referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" - a boisterous period characterized by rapidly changing lifestyles, financial excesses, and the fast pace of technological progress.
Also, there are lists of resources with links to other web-sites on many topics related to the nineteen-twenties.
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The Roaring Twenties Blog
Lindbergh Mail Problems 1927
COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH'S chief secretarial aide, Commander Fitzhugh Green, has made public the recently completed cataloguing of the popular flier's mail.
What is Dry Ice
Dry ice has already become a valuable refrigerant, and the reason is that its temperature stands some 112 below zero. Pound for pound it refrigerates fifteen times as much as common frozen water.
Introduction of 40 Hour Working Week
THAT man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow is a dictum of the Scriptures that has been pretty well abolished in America, where, in the main, he now acquires, not bread, but canned goods and package foods, by the oil on a machine. Mr. Thomas A. Edison is on record as [...]
1920’s U.S. Immigration Policies
It may be questioned if the present basis of selection according to racial types is a more desirable policy than selection within a race according to the merits and defects of individuals. However, to a certain extent our immigration laws take into account individual qualifications, for example by excluding aliens with records of crime or insanity.
Puncture Solutions
Magnets and small boys used to pick nails up off roads to avoid punctures in car tires
National Geographic Jun 1920 SAVING THE REDWOODS
1923 MERCURY SILVER DIME U S COIN FAST SHIPPING #4287
RARE Dog Book 1927 The Greyhound & Racing by Dalziel
Vintage ART DECO Sterling Jade Peridot Pendant! 1920's
Vintage Lesney 1928 Mercedes "Models Of Yesteryear"
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