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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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Rudolph Valentino, SON OF THE SHEIK (1926)

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2024/12/06
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Jack Dempsey, Estelle Taylor and Rudolph Valentino meeting in Demspey’s  Ritz-Carlton apartment in New York City on June 8th 1926.

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2024/12/05
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Colleen Moore photographed by E. O. Hoppe, 1926.

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2024/12/05
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Show girls in the dressing room, 1926.

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2024/12/05
21:51 UTC

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Hollywood in 1926. The Hollywood sign originally said “Hollywoodland” when it was installed in 1923. The last four letters were removed when the sign was refurbished in 1949.

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2024/12/04
21:29 UTC

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1929. After a day of Christmas shopping.

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2024/12/04
21:24 UTC

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Delores del Rio (1920s)

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2024/12/04
08:01 UTC

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Mary Philbin, c. 1924. She was an American actress known for her roles in silent films, particularly as Christine Daaé in the 1925 movie "The Phantom of the Opera" and as Dea in "The Man Who Laughs."

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2024/12/03
19:19 UTC

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From left to right- Mary Pickford, Mildred Harris with Mary (Mom) Dorothy, and Lillian Gish, c. 1922.

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2024/12/03
16:45 UTC

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Ruth Elder, photographed by Irving Chidnoff, (1927.)

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2024/12/02
20:03 UTC

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Virginia Bradford, c. 1920s. She was an American actress, known for The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927), Atta Boy (1926) and Chicago (1927).

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2024/12/02
16:28 UTC

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Louise Brooks, c. 1929.

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2024/12/01
21:03 UTC

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Myrna Loy (1920s)

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2024/12/01
14:06 UTC

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Barbara La Marr, 1920s.

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2024/11/30
19:52 UTC

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Ida Rubinstein, 1922.

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2024/11/30
16:03 UTC

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February, 1925 cover of “The Police Gazette” with Betty Compton.

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2024/11/30
15:55 UTC

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Tsuguharu Fujita (1886-1968), sixth from the left, with second woman from left, Suzy Solidor (1900-1983) & third woman from left, Kiki de Montparnasse (1901-1953) - Deauville, France - 1928.

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2024/11/30
15:42 UTC

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“Power house mechanic working on steam pump” (1920) by Lewis Wickes Hine.

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2024/11/30
15:09 UTC

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Joan Crawford in THE UNKNOWN (1927), dir. Tod Browning.

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2024/11/30
08:26 UTC

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The Dolly Sisters (Rosie and Jennie) in the stage show Casino de Paris, 1927 / Ph. by James Edward Abbe.

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2024/11/28
19:01 UTC

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1928. Grant's Tomb in Riverside Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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2024/11/28
18:53 UTC

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Louise Brooks (1920's)

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2024/11/28
18:33 UTC

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Mabel Normand in ‘The Extra Girl” (1923)

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2024/11/28
10:28 UTC

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Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian in Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

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2024/11/27
21:26 UTC

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American film and stage actress Dorothy Sebastian, 1920s.

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2024/11/27
21:24 UTC

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Gary Cooper, c. 1928.

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2024/11/27
18:59 UTC

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Kuppenheimer ad, 1922.

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2024/11/27
18:52 UTC

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1922. Friends Laura Lyle, Olive Robinson, Virginia Roche, Ruth O'Brien on board.

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2024/11/27
18:44 UTC

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