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Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1920s from the Social Security Administration This page was last edited on 4 January 2024, at 19:56 (UTC). Text is available under ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
Richetti was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early 1930s, and both Floyd and he were later implicated in the Kansas City massacre. Richetti was executed on October 7, 1938. [2] [10] Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn: No image available: 1890–1934 (Sankey)
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
The Pansy Craze was a period of increased LGBT visibility in American popular culture from the late-1920s until the mid-1930s. [1] [2] During the "craze," drag queens — known as "pansy performers" — experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The exact dates of the ...
Russell Werner Lee (July 21, 1903 – August 28, 1986) [1] was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. His images documented the ethnography of various American classes and cultures.
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...
The lighthearted, forward-looking attitude and fashions of the late 1920s lingered through most of 1930, [3] but by the end of that year the effects of the Great Depression began to affect the public, and a more conservative approach to fashion displaced that of the 1920s. For women, skirts became longer and the waist-line was returned up to ...