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Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 - Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interi...
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Tiffany Lamp * - The industrialist Andrew Carnegie owned this Tiffany lamp. Lamps with leaded-glass shades were extremely popular between 1900 and the late 1920s. Tiffany Studios, founded by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1900, made the first and finest examples of these lamps....
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1930s Project - 1930s America was a decade of unparalleled contradiction and complexity. Encapsulated loosely on one end by Black Tuesday of the Great Depression and on the other end by the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the years between 1929 and 1941 were characterized by...
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"Night of the Soul: American Film Noir" * - Every so often something happens in art, literature, and cinema that leaves a lasting impression and influences much of what comes after. Painting has seen impressionism and cubism; realism and surrealism have pulled the novel in opposite directions....
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Encyclopaedia of British History * - Internet Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution - British History: 1700-1950 is a comprehensive encyclopedia being produced for the NGfL. The encyclopedia currently contains over 2,800 entries and is an attempt to show the history of Britain through t...
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WayBack - Technology in 1900 * - learn about the first telephone operators, early race cars, music videos, and more...1900 style! Read historic predictions too. From PBS' The American Experience.
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Theodor Horydczak Collection * - The Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923 - 1959 collection which contains over 14,000 photographs of buildings, business, news and human interest items for Washington, D.C.
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American Studies @ The University of Virginia * - Our primary objective is to pursue the study of American culture(s) across temporal, spatial and institutional boundaries. Our goal is to augment the number of electronically accessible materials in American Studies by creating digitized texts, hypertex...
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The 1900 House * - watch as PBS takes a modern family and moves them into a Victorian. Find out what home-life was like around 1900, including what people wore and what sort of homes they lived in.
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Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 - Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress....
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