1920s
Subtitle: America enters the modern age
By: [compiled] by Christine Brendel Scriabne.
Contributors: Scriabine, Christine Brendel.
Series: Jackdaw -- no. 303.; Jackdaw (New York, N.Y.) -- no. 303..
Publisher: Jackdaw Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amawalk, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Nineteen twenties.; United States -- History. -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Nineteen twenties
Notes: Portfolio includes 1 study guide with reproducible masters, 1 notes sheet, 5 broadsheets, 1 timeline, and 15 reproductions of documents.
Table of contents: value: Broadsheet essays: I. The prosperity era; value: II. Modernism in literature, art and thought; value: III. Life in the Twenties; value: IV. Popular culture; value: V. The political climate.; value: Historical documents: 1. Maps and graphs illustrating the suburbanization of Connecticut, 1920-30; value: 2. Art Deco: the style of the 20s; value: 3. Excerpt form Emily Post's Etiquette, 1922; value: 4. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," by Langston Hughes, 1926; value: 5. The other America; value: 6. Excerpt from Fred E. Burgess' Memoirs of Eighty Years of Farming; value: 7. Selections from "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," by Hiram Wesley Evans, 1926; value: 8. "The Sacco and Vanzetti Cases," by Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1921; value: 9. American Civil Liberties Union, "Report on Civil Liberty Situation for Week Ending Jan. 27, 1923"; value: 10. Selections from "The Censorship in Boston, " 1929; value: 11. "The War in Passaic," by Mary Heaton Vorse, 1926; value: 12. Map, U.S. Highway 101, Los Angeles, CA, 1926; value: 13. 1920s sports album; value: 14. 1920s ad book compiled from various magazines, c.1927; value: 15. Front page of Variety, Wednesday, October 30, 1929.