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Object of the Week for December 28

Happy New Year!

This holiday card from the Archives of America Art is an example of the many primary sources collected there. As 2020 comes to a close, look back at 1920 and the following 'roaring' decade through the activities and objects below.

The 1920s saw the rise of skyscrapers in cities such as NYC and Chicago!

Links

  1. This Smithsonian Spotlight shows off the year 1920 in the collections...
  2. ... while THIS Spotlight collection celebrates the New Year!
  3. Have a listen to this Roaring Twenties playlist from Smithsonian Folkways
  4. Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop trip across the Atlantic in 1927
  5. Check out some other pioneering moments from the 1920s with NASM
  6. In 1920, station KDKA transmitted the first professional radio broadcast
  7. The Postal Museum shows the "Celebrate the Century: 1920s Souvenir Sheet"
  8. The Negro National League in baseball began in 1920
  9. The ACLU was established in 1920
  10. The ratification of the 19th amendment, a major step towards giving all female US citizens a right to vote, occurred in 1920