/r/1920s
1920s, Twenties, Roaring Twenties, Flappers
"The new generation is dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.
You like the 1920s? This is the place. Roaring Twenties, Golden Twenties, the first modern decade. Flappers, silent stars, the first fast cars, bootleg booze, and so much more.
Content from or relating to within a few years of either side of the 1920s is fine too.
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1922 c. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in evening dress. She married the Duke of York, had Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and became queen of England when her husband became king. I remember her as the Queen Mum. She was much loved by the British people for her courage and strength during World War II.
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Narragansett and Nipmuc group on the Hassamanisco Reservation in South Grafton, Massachusetts - c. 1925
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October, 1922. Morning wrap of crepe-de-chine bordered with crepe. From Sterns Brothers department store.
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1923. On Broadway, Adele and Fred Astaire posing for Nickolas Muray to promote their show "The Bunch and Judy" for "Vanity Fair" magazine.
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1920’s sheet music find ?
Found this in a goodwill today, picked it up for $2. Anyone have any info on it ?
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Robert Montgomery & Joan Crawford in "Untamed" (1929)
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
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Gang War (1928)
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American actress Leila Hyams, c. 1925. She had a film career spanning from 1924 to 1936.
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Gloria Swanson in "Sadie Thompson" (1928.)
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Colleen Moore, 1926.
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1928 ad for the Forrest Hotel
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1928. From a Cadillac brochure, a Five Passenger Coupe. Illustration by Thomas Maitland Cleland.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (May 1922)
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Helen Kane & Richard Skeets Gallagher in "Pointed Heels" (1929.)
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Annette Benson was a British film actress. She was a leading lady of British silent films of the 1920s, appearing in "Confetti" (1927) with Jack Buchanan and Downhill with Ivor Novello.
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So true
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Why is this rare to see people born in the 1920s or 1930s using social medias and creating account?
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VIOLA DANA (ca. 1925) Portrait by Walter Fredrick Seely.
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An early shot of Myrna Loy, before stardom, that was used in a cigar ad, c. early 1920s.
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1923. Broadway dancer Ruby Poe by Richard Southall Grant.
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American silent film actress Gladys Walton In 1924.
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Charlotte Smith, known professionally as Lottie Pickford, was a Canadian-American silent film actress and socialite. She was the younger sister of fellow actress Mary Pickford and elder sister of actor Jack Pickford.
Pickford's career often is overshadowed by that of her siblings and though she was a notable figure in the 1920s, her films and role in the Pickford acting family largely are forgotten.
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Louise Brooks, Nancy Phillips, Josephine Dunn, Doris Hill and James Hall on Paramount Studios Lot in Hollywood 1927.
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Bela Lugosi and Tod Browning's Mysterious First Collaboration
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[Happy Halloween] J.P. Seeburg Orchestrion ~(1927) Playing “Danse Macabre”
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Mayberry's Frances Bavier in the 1920s
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Colleen Moore In Flaming Youth (1923)
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