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1. The 1920's The decade of the nineteen-twenties was a time of great exhuberence and enthusiasm with strong parallels to today, and is often referred to as the roaring twenties. The current decade is almost a re-run of the 1920's. The Stock Market crash of O...
2. The Roaring 1920's: Fashion, Celebrity, Craziness!!! . . . and the Kings and Queens of Broadway! Everything you ever wanted to know about cool 1920s culture. The famous icons, the beautiful styles, the flashy gangsters, and glittering Gold Diggers of an amazing era in world history. This lens shed...
3. 1920's Style One of my favorite eras is the 1920's. 1920s style saw women free from enormous skirts.  One of the best examples of this was the flapper. It was a time of cutting loose and having fun.  The flapper was an independent woman that knew ho...
4. The Untouchables - Eliot Ness and Prohibition After Prohibition was passed, a set of racketeers began to trade alcohol, including Al Capone. To take them on a special unit was formed at the Treasury department. Led by Elliot Ness, they became known as the Untouchables. Taking on men who would s...
5. Newbery Medal Winners, 1922-1929 Early Newbery Medal winners included short story collections, non-fiction, and novels. Many are out of print, difficult to locate, and rare. Books older than 1927 may now be in the public domain. This lens has links to Amazon pages for all the Newbe...
6. Lord Carnarvon Born June 26, 1866 at Highclere Castle In 1890, succeeded to the titlle as 5th Earl of Carnarvon ("Lord Carnarvon") Married June 26, 1895 to Almina Victoria Maria Alexandra Wombwell Sponsored Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun'...
7. Art Deco - Design for the Modern Age Art Deco, popular originally in the 1920s and 30s, took its name from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, an exhibition held in Paris in 1925. There the style was first seen in the work of French designer...
8. Kitschy Christmas Kitsch Kitsch--something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste. Who knew, back in the 1940's and 1950's that popular trends then would be today's kitsch. So many of the popular phenomenon...
9. Katie Melua: Mary Pickford (Used to Eat Roses) In this hauntingly beautiful song, Katie Melua sings of the love of Douglas Fairbanks Sr for Mary Pickford ... who used to eat roses .. and the creation of the United Artists film studio along with Charlie Chaplin and David Griffiths. It's tender, mo...
10. Smith Ballew Date of Birth: 21 January 1902, Palestine, Texas Date of Death: 2 May 1984, Longview, Texas One of the finest singers of the Crooner era, Smith Ballew was nicknamed theTexas Troubadour. Born in Palestine, Texas, Ballew made his way to New York City a...
11. Vintage Fashion Books There are so many aspects of the vintage fashion industry. If you are a collector of vintage, seller, plain old curious about how to identify a 1920's art deco necklace or all of the above this lens is for you. This lens plans on becoming a comprehen...
12. Sheet Music from the 1920s One can find a large variety of sheet music for songs that were popular during the 1920s. The decade is referred to as The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Dry Decade and the Flapper Generation. Some chose to listen to the music on a Victrola or Grapha...
13. The Life and Movies of Douglas Fairbanks Sr - The King of Hollywood One of the first all-action hero movie stars, Douglas Fairbanks Srr was a star of the 1920s silent movies. In this lens you'll find a biography of his life, interspersed with videos and introductions to some of his greatest movies. Douglas Fairba...
14. The Jumping Flea The ukulele (Hawaiian: ukulele, IPA pronunciation: ukulele, sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or f...
15. Gladys Bentley Background information Born: August 12, 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: 18 January 1960 Genre: Blues Occupation: Singer Voice type: Contralto Years active: 1920s & 1930s Gladys Bentley (12 August 1907-18 January 1960) was an American blues si...
16. Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys With her sleek bob haircut (usually with a flower or two placed just so), vintage dresses, strikingly beautiful looks, and artfully customized ukulele, Janet Klein might seem at first to be a simple novelty act, a Generation X hipster ironically recr...
17. Bert Williams Egbert Austin Williams (November 12, 1875 - March 4, 1922) was the pre-eminent Black entertainer of his era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920. Willi...
18. Historic Village of SODUS POINT, New York Postcard image from the 1920s of the Yacht Club in Sodus Point, NY (nickname: "The Point."). The group of sailboats was probably a beginners' sailing class. Such groups are still a common sight on any summer's day at "The Point." Daily life back then...
19. Myrna Loy what a beauty Its official, I just fell in love with Myrna Loy watching Libeled Lady starring Myrna Loy, William Powell, Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. It is Myrna Loy day on TCM and I am nursing a bad back. What is it about her? That assured tone in her voice, d...
20. Persia Walker, Mystery Author Persia Walker is an American author of historical mystery novels. To date, her novels have been set in the 1920s, against the glittering backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance. BET named Walker's debut novel, Harlem Redux as one of the top 10 books of t...