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The 1920s

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Online Newspaper Archives

Great photo collection of the decades

Time Magazine Search

World of Primary Sources and Images

Pictures of the 1920s

Images: General (Authentic HIstory Center)

Images: Women's Suffrage (Authentic HIstory Center)

Images: Prohibition (Authentic HIstory Center)

Images: Women's Fashion (Authentic HIstory Center)

MOVIES

Film History of the 1920s

The Movies PBS The People's Century

Silent Movie links (some a lot better than others)

Walt Disney Family Museum

American Picture Palaces


MUSIC

Jazz Age Chicago

PBS-Jazz-Ken Burns

The Blues: PBS

 Music (Authentic HIstory Center)

Jazz Age Culture (many links, some better than others)

The Red Hot Jazz Archive


FAMOUS PEOPLE

Lindbergh: PBS American Experience


SPORTS

Early Baseball Pictures: Library of Congress

Baseball: Ken Burns PBS

Baseball Hall of Fame

Negro Baseball League

The Chicago Black Sox Scandal


Harlem Renaissance

The Art of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance


Business

New York: PBS Series

Mass Production PBS The People's Century

Great reference for advertisements (Duke University Collection)


Crime

Prohibition

Chicago Historical Society (good site for Al Capone)

The Lawless Decade: Pictorial History of a Great American Transition


Trials

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Scopes Trial


General Links

Many links to the 1920s (some a lot better than others)

The 1920s links (some a lot better than others)

Clash of Cultures (excellent site to explore)

The Twenties (Annenberg/CPB/PBS)

Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture

Digital History of the 1920s