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Posts Tagged: 1920s

  • November 6, 2013

    Anna May Wong

    BY Claire Lucido

    Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 24, 2013

    Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974

    BY Lucas Habte

    Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens. 

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • August 23, 2013

    Brooklyn Poem Prodigy

    BY Monika Zaleska

    Brooklyn native Nathalia Crane was just nine years old when she published her first poem in The New York Sun (they thought they were publishing an adult).

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • March 1, 2013

    Barbara Newhall Follett, Vanished Novelist

    BY Claire Lucido

    Barbara Newhall Follett published her first novel The House Without Windows, at the age of 12.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • December 7, 2012

    The Shifters

    BY Claire Lucido

    There was much to do in 1922 over the flapper subspecies with the “peculiar shuffling gait,” weird handshake (done without clasping hands), black and white dresses, and turned back coat lapels decorated with splendid sparkling paperclips, called The Shifters.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 16, 2012

    Bedouin Youth

    BY Teenage Editor

    A 1930’s Bedouin youth in Palmyra, an ancient city in present-day Syria.  

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 9, 2012

    Motion Picture School

    BY Teenage Editor

    1925 — The hopeful applicants to Paramount Motion Picture School on Astoria, Long Island!

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • July 15, 2012

    Harold Teen

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Harold Teen was a popular comic strip in the 1920s written and drawn by Carl Ed.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • July 13, 2012

    Swim Girl, Swim!

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Gertrude Ederle learned in swim at age 9 in while summering in her New Jersey cottage.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • July 12, 2012

    4H Friends

    BY Teenage Editor

    1920– a bread-making demonstration on the lawn of Anson County Courthouse, North Carolina.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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