American Life in the 1920s

 

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Nurse for African Orphans

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Ku Klux Klan

Parade of the Ku Klux Klan through counties in Virginia bordering on the District of Columbia last night

Imperial Wizard

Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

Calvin Coolidge With Indians

Calvin Coolidge With Indians

Miss Ruth Muskrat, a

Miss Ruth Muskrat, a Cherokee Indian, presents Mr. Coolidge with a copy of The Red Man in the United States, a survey of the present day American Indian

Cowboy Band

Mrs. Hoover greets the cowboy band

Madame Curie

Madame Curie

Inauguration Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Inauguration

Man With Big Mustache

Man With Big Mustache

William Howard Taft, Warren

William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, and Robert Todd Lincoln, standing, left to right

Bootleg Whiskey

Bootleg Whiskey

Truck load of beef

Truck load of beef being delivered to Central Market, Washington, D.C.; black driver

Bootlegger Car Chase and Crash

Bootlegger Car Chase and Crash

Woman Mechanic

Woman Mechanic

Wall Street Bombing

Wall Street Bombing

President Coolidge and Wife

President Coolidge and Wife

Will Rogers

Will Rogers plays horse shoes

Children Sharing

Sharing

President Calvin Coolidge

President Calvin Coolidge

Robert Todd Lincoln, 1843-1926

Robert Todd Lincoln, 1843-1926

Dancing Charleston at the Capitol

Dancing Charleston at the Capitol

Woodrow Wilson, Warren G.

Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Philander Knox, and Joseph Cannon, in convertible, March 4, 1921

Girl Automobie Mechanics

High school girls learn the art of automobile mechanics

Woodrow Wilson

Armistice Day, 1922 - Woodrow Wilson standing in the doorway of his home

New York City street

New York City street scene

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, arriving at the White House for conference with the president

Mail Trucks

Mail Trucks

Woman Talking on Phone

Woman Talking on Phone

Hoover, Herbert C.

President Herbert Hoover

President Calvin Coolidge

President Calvin Coolidge

Henry Ford, full-length portrait,

Henry Ford,

Small Car

Small Car

Treasury Fire

Washington, D.C., Fire Department activities - fighting Treasury fire

President Coolidge in Car

President Coolidge

Postman

Postman

Auto Race

Auto racing in or near Washington, D.C.

1920 Wall Street Bombing

Wall Street Bombing 1920

Bootleg Still

Bootleg Still

Bootleg Moonshine

Policeman standing alongside wrecked car and cases of moonshine

Will Rogers plays horse

Will Rogers plays horse shoes

Delivery Truck

Delivery Truck

 

 

 

 

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