[February 21st, 1924] Is There A Cure For Perpetual Talkers?

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[November 7th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in City Hall Park what they think of VP Calvin Coolidge saying that women are murdering their husbands and engaging in strange love pacts because the country is too prosperous.

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[August 26th, 1921] Woman's traditional costume, Wolkenstein in Groden (Selva di Val Gardena), Tyrol, Italy

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[July 14, 1922] Christian Fundamentalist Leader Attacks Theory of Evolution

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[June 26th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks NYC pedestrians how much a bathhouse should reasonably cost.

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[August 10th, 1921] 'You must be photogenic from feet to head. Then you are allowed to have talent.' French actress Musidora

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[August 22nd, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter asks, What would you buy first if you suddenly became rich?

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[April 10th, 1922] Equality Between Wife And Husband.

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[May 3rd, 1923] Arrest of Bogoris, the main perpetrator of the attack on the Strasbourg Express, arrested at the gare de Sceaux.

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[August 5th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer: Would you consider a man a Moll who assists his wife with the housework?

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[February 18th, 1923] German Fascisti Mobilize, from the New York Sunday News.

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[March 24th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks women near Madison Square Park if they would rather be clever or beautiful.

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[October 7th, 1922] Fascisti Prepare To Control Italy. Mussolini Declares Their Real Government Must Displace the Present Cabinet. Coup In Rome Is Expected (New York Times)

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[August 2, 1923] Vice President Coolidge is awoken by his father informing him that the President has died. He is sworn in by his dad, then returns back to sleep.

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[January 24, 1921] A classroom in a Walla Walla, WA school.

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[December 28th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians in Union Square what they think of the NYC subway's new coin-operated turnstiles.

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[July 9, 1919] World needs a League of Nations to stop a future generation of German people fed nothing but revenge

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[December 11, 1920] The Appropriation Pie, cartoon by the American Union Against Militarism.

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[October 20th, 1922] Our Restaurants At Several Periods.

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[October 5 1919] Enzo Ferrari, an Italian car mechanic and engineer, enters his first race. He finished fourth. Ferrari was a good driver, but not great. He won just 13 of the 47 races he entered. Some say he cared too much for the sports cars he drove and could never ruin an engine in order to win.

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[June 14th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks salesmen in front of the original Penn Station what they would do if they caught a major client having an affair on his jealous wife with a chorus girl.

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[July 24th, 1921] Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium.

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[August 21st, 1923] Two Impressions of the Same Hotel.

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[November 11th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Brooklyn pedestrians how best to keep criminals from getting revolvers.

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[November 17th, 1922] The Irish Free State Army carried out its first executions under the Public Safety Bill, as four Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, arrested for carrying weapons in violation of the law.

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[June 10th, 1923] Pancho Villa is crazy about playing the drums in a jazz outfit, and the little Filipino can really make the feet shuffle too. After a strenuous day of training, he nestles down into his place in the orchestra and forgets everything except the good time he is having.

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[September 15th, 1921] Mary Pickford's Little Lord Fauntleroy has its world premiere. It will go on to earn an estimated $900,000 at the box office

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[March 17th, 1923] A Few More Records That Might Be Tried.

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[June 26th, 1923] Drop-waisted ankle length summer dress in multi-patterned material with three-quarter sleeves and elbow length gloves. Worn with a cloche hat decorated with a bow. One-bar shoes.

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[July 9th, 1923] Men's Fashions in Sports Head-Gear.

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[October 7th, 1921] A neatly dressed young teacher presides over a class of local children in Marey, West Virginia. Many of the children are barefoot. Location: Sunset School, Marey, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA.

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[April 15th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks men in Brooklyn why they're bachelors.

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[March 4, 1921] President Warren G. Harding gives his inaugural address in front of the capitol.

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[May 26th, 1923] Albert Leo Schlageter, 28, the first German Nazi martyr, was executed by a French Army firing squad for sabotaging a railroad track in Germany's French-occupied Ruhr region.

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[January 18th, 1922] Hard To Please Everybody.

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[April 8, 1920] The Chicago Post Office has adopted roller skates for its clerks as they enable them to work more rapidly, thereby saving valuable time. Photo shows two clerks with skates handling parcel post.

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[February 12, 1921] Saturday Evening Post

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[January 25, 1921] Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) premiered on this day and introduced the term ‘robot’ to the world.

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[July 6, 1921] Stubby the hero World War I dog receives a gold medal from Gen. John J. Pershing.

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[February 1, 1921] TV actor Peter Sallis OBE was born on this day. Most notably he is the voice of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit as well as Cleggy in Last of the Summer Wine which ran from 1973 to 2010.

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[November 3rd, 1921] The Outbursts of Everett True by A.D. Condo

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[July 17th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians near the New York Public Library if doctors should refuse emergency house calls late at night and what the punishment should be for doing so.

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[December 13th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks the children of P.S. 23 what they're most looking forward to this Christmas.

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[June 18th, 1921] Madison Square Garden transformed into swimming pool scene in Tex Rickard's luxurious indoor swimming pool which was thrown open to the public.

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[August 15, 1922] Japanese Army is Cut

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[January 21st, 1924] Vladimir Lenin, the semi-retired founder and leader of the Soviet Union and the de facto leader of the USSR as First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, died at his estate in Gorki at 18:50 hrs Moscow time following a stroke.

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[September 26th, 1921] When The Food Crank Comes To Dine.

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[October 21, 1922] Stubborn Woman Freed

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[March 5th, 1921] A huge crowd watches the match between Cardiff City and Chelsea.

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[December 25th, 1919] Brother and sister pose with the Christmas tree with all their presents from Santa underneath.

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[June 3rd, 1921] Injured and wounded men are being taken to hospital by National guardsmen after racially motivated riots, also known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, during which a mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US.

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[September 28th, 1921] Do Women Prefer Ill-Mannered Men?

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[February 5th, 1923] Public-House Reform: A Suggestion.

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[June 20th, 1923] A group of elderly men sitting with a sign which reads, London's Old Cabbies, A few Pensioners of the Cabdrivers Benevolent Association, Combined Ages 1010 Years.

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[September 25th, 1922] Starting to Washington in Plane with Report of Board of Inquiry into Death of Six in Plane Crash at Mitchel Field. Photo shows Lieut. Eugene H. Barksdale as he hopped off from Mitchel Field, Mineola, L.I., this afternoon.

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[October 8 1923] Died: Jack Trice, 21, Iowa State College football player, died of injuries sustained two days earlier when he was trampled by opposing players in a game against the University of Minnesota. Trice may have been targeted by his opponents during the game due to being African-American.

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[March 19th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge if they think Charlie Chaplin is still the greatest film comedian.

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[December 11th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks Lower Manhattan pedestrians what they think of prominent British women like Margot Asquith claiming that American husbands spoil their wives.

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[May 22nd, 1923] Conversational Bores No.2— The Pessimist.

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[September 3rd, 1922] What The Gliding Craze May Bring In Its Train

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[July 9th, 1920] Introducing the Peepul's Choice, cartoon from The Toiler

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[April 6th, 1924] India: An epidemic of plague has claimed 25,000 victims. Plague In Punjab. 25,000 Deaths In The Month of March.

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[May 30th, 1921] France, May 30, 1921, Prince Hirohito of Japan visiting France, The prince, disembarking in Le Havre, is saluted, before his departure for Paris, by the French commanding officer of the honour detachment.

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[October 21st, 1921] $alesman $am by George Swan Swanson

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[June 28th, 1921] Vladimir Lenin delivers a speech at a meeting of the third congress of the Comintern in the former Andreevsky Hall of the Kremlin. Moscow.

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[February 16th, 1924] The Inquiring Reporter in San Francisco asks, Should high school girls be spanked for smoking cigarettes?

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[August 28th, 1923] The Starer and His Punishment.

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[March 18th, 1921] Who's Going To Win The Grand National?

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[November 19th, 1921] British Empire's Future. What Will It Be Like 100 Years Hence?

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[March 8, 1922] Rat damages soda fountain--has no insurance.

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[October 25 1923] In photo is shown Benito Mussolini, Italian Premier, in the new uniform of the Fascisti. He ranks as Honorary Corporal. Mussolini has often been likened to Napoleon, and expressly titled the photo The Two Eagles. An eagle was killed expressly and embalmed just for this picture.

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[March 10th 1922] Another Cabinet radio bug. Not content with having installed a complete radio outfit at his home, Sec. Herbert Hoover has also installed a radio set in his office, so that he is always in touch with the air and always able to pick up radio notes. Everybody's doing it.

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[February 27th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Midtown Manhattan pedestrians if the subway services have improved in the last six months.

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[March 7th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks NoHo pedestrians if women dress to please men or to make other women envious.

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[November 16th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks the pedestrians of NYC if modern college girls are better than their grandmothers.

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[June 24, 1992] Find the Lead in this Bathroom - Ad in The Saturday Evening Post

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[March 1st, 1922] An obscure haberdashery owner named Harry S. Truman begins his campaign for eastern district judge of Jackson County.

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[July 28th, 1921] Johns Hopkins University Hospital, in Baltimore, United States, announced that it would set maximum limits of $1,000 for a surgical operation and $35 per week for hospitalization.

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[October 9, 1922] The first Fritzi Ritz comic strip, written and drawn by Larry Whittington, is published.

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[November 19th, 1923] Dramatic measures have been ordered by Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright in an effort to stem the flood of complaints he has received bearing upon the actions of men in crowded subway trains. Policewomen, young and attractive, will be used to discover offenders.

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[November 30th, 1921] Aftermath of an auto accident in Washington DC.

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[January 29th, 1924] Male And Female Fashions: A History.

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[September 4th, 1923] Quake Dead Half Million. The President's Appeal for Help.

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[February 23rd, 1922] Some race! Photo shows Essex Sedan fitted with rail wheels on the tracks of the Santa Fe R.R. The Essex will make the run from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Arizona, a distance of over 500 miles. The party in the Sedan expect to beat the time of the railroad.

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[October 5th, 1921] The Outbursts of Everett True by A.D. Condo

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[May 8th, 1922] Tempers And Food: A Domestic Problem.

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[January 28th, 1921] Burial of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile

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[March 11th, 1922] Daily Mirror cover with news of the arrest of Gandhi.

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[November 26, 1921] Saturday Evening Post

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[January 18th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians near Union Square how they would bring down the murder rate.

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[April 22nd, 1923] Simple Suggestions For Keeping A Servant.

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[April 7, 1921] Kindergarten band.

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[December 13, 1920] Betelgeuse becomes the first star to have its diameter measured, measuring 240 million miles

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[July 25, 1922] Drug Not Legal Tender

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[April 27, 1922] The fantastic Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated on the 100th anniversary of Grant's birth. The sculptor, Henry Schrady, worked on it for 20 years - and died 2 weeks before it was unveiled.

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[October 26th, 1921] $alesman $am by George Swan Swanson

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[September 24th, 1921] The retired USS Alabama is subject to a simulated bombing in an Air Force training exercise. The ship is populated by mannequins standing in for enemy soldiers.

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[April 29, 1922] Zhang Zuolin, ruler of Manchuria, begins the First Zhili-Fengtian War for control of Beijing (then Peking)

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[April 2nd 1922] San Francisco, California: The family radio replaces the family Victrola. No more does the family gather in the parlor to enjoy the tunes of music from a Victrola. The present-day craze for radio places that novelty within the reach of all

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[February 18th, 1921] Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) inspecting Honourable Artillery Company Guard of Honour.

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[August 4th, 1923] A Mystery of Seaside Bathing.

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[June 6, 1920] Suffragists with a banner ready for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Chicago.

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[March 3, 1921] President-elect Warren G. Harding in Washington, a day before his inauguration.

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[September 21st, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks, Who do you think has done the most for the betterment of the world since the time of Christ?

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[September 14th, 1923] How To Deal With Angry Women.

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[August 12, 1921] Water tennis being played in front of the Washington Monument.

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[June 15, 1922] Lynch Mob is Foiled

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[April 29, 1922] Andrew Griffin, shooting at wife, hits another (the police said it was an honest mistake)

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[July 19th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer: What do you think of the bare-armed dresses the girls are wearing now?

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[June 15th, 1923] Persia: Up to 20,000 were reported dead after an earthquake caused an avalanche that buried five villages.

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[January 29th, 1923] The Inquiring Photographer asks Manhattan pedestrians what they think of Supreme Court Justice Edward T. Sanford's statement that the poor don't get equal justice in the courts.

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[June 13th, 1921] Troubles of the census next Sunday.

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[October 27, 1920] Women practicing voting in Dayton, Ohio. This is the 1st election in which all women can vote.

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[October 21st, 1923] When Middle-Age Tries To Recapture Youth.

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[January 20th, 1921] Two ice skaters collide on the rink at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York

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[March 1, 1924] KKK San Pedro, CA.

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[March 21st, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians near Bryant Park if they think men of their day are less manly than their predecessors.

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[July 14th, 1923] The Ku Klux Klan holds its first Konvention in the state of Washington as part of an aggressive but short-lived recruitment effort in the Northwest.

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[December 21st, 1921] Hidayatullah, son of the Emir, with his attendant.

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[July 15th, 1923] President Harding symbolically completes construction of the Alaska Railroad by using a hammer to drive the golden spike linking the rails that had been built from different directions, in a ceremony near the town of Nenana.

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[June 24th, 1923] American silent crime melodrama film The Woman With Four Faces was released.

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[April 23, 1923] Herbert Hoover helped break ground for a model house. LoC photo.

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[March 27th 1922] New York's Unemployed Protest! Police reserves from five precincts flocked to Pearl and Centre Sts. today to prevent trouble during a demonstration by the city's unemployed.

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[May 17th, 1922] Philadelphia's Smart Set at Annual Garden Fete. Miss Margaret Dallet at the Annual Garden Fete, held on the Clothier Estate at Wynnewood. The Garden Fete is the feature of the Philadelphia Social Season, and comprises a series of tableaux, pony and dog shows and fashion exhibition.

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[August 30, 1922] Something Mere Man Can't Understand

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[February 12th, 1922] Ku Klux Klan Initiate at Miami. Winter visitors at Miami, Florida, got a real thrill the night of February 7th when 900 members of the Ku Klux suddenly appeared fully garbed on the golf links of the fashionable Miami Country Club.

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[December 4, 1920] Writing to Santa Claus.

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[October 29th, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians near the Manhattan Municipal Building if fathers should train their sons for marriage the same way mothers train their daughters.

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[April 12th, 1920] Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the 'Red Napoleon', is photographed

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[January 21, 1921] Le kid a Charlie Chaplin movie

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[July 6, 1922] It Hasn't Been So Hot and Dry Recently As We Thought It Was

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[May 12, 1922] Nikolai Mansevich, Rudsian-born Ford factory worker, is ordered to be deported for distributing Soviet literature. After exhausting his appeals he is deported to Poland in 1924, leaving behind his American wife and four daughters.

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[October 2nd, 1921] Are Modern Women Less Bashful Than Men?

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[December 1st, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks women passing by the Hudson Terminal Building if they'd be willing to marry a movie star.

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[March 22, 1921] A busy London street as seen from a bus.

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[September 12th, 1921] If Charlie Were A Poor Relation!

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[March 13, 1921] Irish women protest the coming execution of six Irishmen imprisoned for violence against the British.

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[November 7th, 1922] Red Army troops parade past the Kremlin on Red Square to mark the fifth anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power.

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[November 28th, 1921] The Inquiring Photographer asks pedestrians of the Bronx how often they eat.

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[May 3rd, 1921] Seniors of the Wellesley Class of 1921 are arranged in remarkable precision so as to form 1921 on the occasion of their recent May Day festivities.

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[December 2nd, 1920] Drawing up present lists for Christmas.

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[May 12th, 1923] The Inquiring Reporter from the Chicago Tribune asks people at the County Building, Do you believe in fortune telling or crystal gazing?

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[April 22nd, 1922] The Inquiring Photographer asks prominent men of New York City what their hobbies are.

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[December 30th, 1916] Rasputin murdered by Russian nobles.

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[January 19th, 1921] Man posing with tusks to be used in billiard ball production.

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