The Roaring Twenties earned that title.
By the early 20th century, America and the world at large had made huge strides. Electricity and mass production meant a rising quality of life, and urbanization alongside the expansion of mass transit meant that people came together in a way that simply wasn't possible before. By the 1920s, wealth, culture and luxury were at an all-time high, and the decade was defined by prosperity and freedom.
Look back at America's first Golden Age when jazz blared and flappers danced, with no worries about what was to come.
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Washington Square Park, NYC
Circa 1920s
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Flappers relaxing on the street
Circa 1920s
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An artist draws some flappers
Circa 1920s
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The Woolworth Building, NYC
Circa 1920s
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Clara Bow wearing a flapper outfit, 1927
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Flapper on the beach, Circa 1920s
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Joséphine Baker in the 20s, a singer, dancer, actress, the quintessential flapper figure, a civil rights activist who refused to sing in front of segregated audiences she also was a French Resistance fighter.
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The Grand Staircase aboard the Olympic ocean liner – 1920’s promotional photo
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Miss America in 1924
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The elegance on the streets of New York City in 1928
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An Orchestra jamming away on the ocean liner 'SS Leviathan', somewhere over the Atlantic in the year 1926
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Fall River, Massachusetts, circa 1920
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Paris in the 1920s
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Woman seated at a soda fountain table is pouring alcohol into a cup from a cane, during Prohibition; with a large Coca-Cola advertisement on the wall, 1922
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