#b. 1920

[casualist-tendency]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Brooklyn Bridge reflection on a rainy day in 1927.

Photo: J. Jay Hirz via MoMA

[clarabowner]

A Modern Flapper in an Old Fashion Gown by Arthur F. Kales, 1923.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Scarecrow and the A-B-Sea Serpent - The Royal Book of Oz, art by John R. Neill (1921)

[catsofyore]

A "Ganna Walskan" kitten, one of several performing cats owned by Thomas Charles of Jersey City. 1925. Source.

[forsapphics]

A woman proposing to another woman (1920's - 1930's)

[eyesfullofmoon]

Anna Pavlova and her pet swan, Jack, at Pavlova's Ivy House in London, England. August 1927.

Photographed by Lafayette.

[clarabowlover]

Louise Brooks - By Eugene Robert Richee (1928)

[nuveau-deco]

Teacup and Saucer Decorated with Stylised Art Deco Black Cats. Medium is porcelain, manufactured by Haviland in France; the additional feline decoration was hand-painted by Floy Hubble in South Australia, 1929. Part of the collection at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

(Source: collection.maas.museum)

[justbusterkeaton]

Rain

Music: Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head by B.J Thomas

[spacetimesally]

Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series…

The 20s & 30s (1 of 3) - The Astounding Wonders of Spacetime Sally, inspired by the 1920s sci-fi serials and pulp sci-fi of the time, this one keeping it simple in the style of the era (spacegirl to spaceflapper)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A woman leaving an IRT station, ca. 1929.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[fibula-rasa]

Why Change Your Wife? (1920)  

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Cinematographer: Alvin Wykoff

Performers: Gloria Swanson & Bebe Daniels

Costumes: Natacha Rambova

[betomad]

"Power house mechanic working on steam pump" (1920) by Lewis Wickes Hine

[garadinervi]

Lewis Carroll, (1865, 1871), Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, with Frontispiece and 21 illustrations by Edgar B. Thurstan, Odhams Press, London, 1920, p. 31

[eyesfullofmoon]

Girls' Night Out, c. 1910s-1920s.