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1900 to 1950 History 1920s 1930s 1940s
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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...
Source/Host: American Memory | Reviewer: J. Nicol 
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Tiffany Lamp
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- 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...
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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Encyclopaedia of British History
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- 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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The 1900 House
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- 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.
Source/Host: PBS
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Theodor Horydczak Collection
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- 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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"Night of the Soul: American Film Noir"
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- 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
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WayBack - Technology in 1900
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- learn about the first telephone operators, early race cars, music videos, and more...1900 style! Read historic predictions too. From PBS' The American Experience.
Source/Host: PBS
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Korean War Maps
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- Korea, Korean War, Battle Maps, Airfield Maps, 1:50,000 Maps, Military Offensive Maps, and Maps that follow the course of the war. Airfields
List of Airfields
Map of Airfields in North and South Korea
How To Obtain 1:50,000 Maps
Maps From Eb...
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Doctor Over Time
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- this cool interactive activity lets you see how going to the doctor has changed from 1900 to 1950 and 1998. It didn't really matter what ailed you. If you were sick in 1900, your doctor couldn't do much more than provide comfort until your body defeated t...
Source/Host: PBS
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