Even the mugshots were cool, 1925.Miss Universe Ella Van Hueson, circa June 16, 1928.Silent film star Evelyn Brent, 1924.Harry Houdini demonstrates photo manipulation by taking a “spirit photograph” with Abraham Lincoln, 1920Three young men in a vehicle, 1924Aviator Bessie Coleman and her plane in 1922Sharpshooter Annie Oakley with a gun that Buffalo Bill gave her, 1922.London Bus, 1928Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, 1920sThe Hollywood sign originally said “Hollywoodland” when it was installed in 1923.Women in Chicago being arrested for wearing one piece bathing suits and showing a little leg. 1922.Traffic officer, Washington, D.C., 1923Actor Rudolph Valentino, 1920sMiss America Contest, 1921Texaco Service 1924Monaco 1929Here, cycling up the Champs Elysees are the nearly 160 competitors of the Tour de France in June, 1926.An ice-cream vendor selling sodas and sweets to children on the city streets of Paris, 1925.Hiram Wesley Evans, who was Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, walking in the mass Klan march in Washington, D.C., in 1926New York City prohibition agents dumping liquor into the gutter, 1920s.Model Hannah Lee Sherman dressed in a Chanel coat, brimless hat, fox stole, suede bag, and snakeskin shoes is helped out of a car on Park Avenue in NYC.Customs men examining liquor seized from a rum-runner ship from Havana that docked at a port on the harbor of New York.Chicago policewomen checking for violations of the bathing suit-length laws, 1921.Howard University Flappers, 1920.Al Capone in a Bathing Suit at His Palm Island Florida Estate, 1929.A smoggy Ludgate Circus, London, 1922.Corner of Michigan and Griswold. Detroit, Michigan, 1920.2nd May 1925: 58 light cars starting the 100 miles high speed reliability trials at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, England. Directing traffic the Minneapolis way, 1923Miller’s restaurant, 126 Washington Avenue south, Minneapolis, January 16, 1920A mourner grieves at the bier of Rudolph Valentino during the actor’s funeral, August 1926.Berlin, 1928Cafe du Dome, Paris 1928.British soldiers wear gasmasks during manoeuvres. 1928Women working in a factory, 1920sA Goodyear Six-wheeled Bus from 1921Leningrad, Russia, 1920sAmelia Earhart, Los Angeles, 1928.T.E. Lawrence, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, on his Brough Superior motorcycle. 1927The two Royal Princes, Prince Albert, foreground, and Prince Henry, at Cambridge University use motorcyles to go to lectures. 1920Signor Davide Cislaghi with his one wheel motorcycle called the “Monowheel”, 1923.Paris, 1920sYoung beauty in swimsuit, 1920sRae Samuels holds the last bottle of beer that was distilled before prohibition went into effect in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 29, 1920.Two bathers being escorted off the beach by a police woman. Chicago, Ill., 1922Babe Ruth batting in 1926.Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis before his Paris flight, 1927“Tiller girls.” Arriving from England, 16 chorus girls in the troupe originated by British musical-theater impresario and precision-dancing pioneer John Tiller. New York, 1926.Emily Lucas of Tonbridge, England, with her 23rd child, 1926.Miss Mercedes Gleitze starts from Folkestone to attempt to swim the channel. This was her seventh try. Mercedes Gleitze became, at her eighth attempt, the first British woman to swim the channel. 1926American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald poses with his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie aboard a ship as they return to America from a two-year European trip in Dec. 1926.Charlie Chaplin, his son, his mother-in-law and his wife. 1926Louis Wagner, winner of the first English Grand Prix, 1926Norma Smallwood, of Tulsa, Okla., poses in her bathing suit with trophies after becoming Miss America 1926 in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 11, 1926.President Calvin Coolidge, with wife Grace and Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon, opens the Baseball season by throwing out the first ball, Apr. 22, 1924.Piggly Wiggly trucks in Washington, D.C., at the Christo Cola Bottling Co., 1924
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