#1920s history

[midcenturyfinds]

Glentworth Sands, Weston-Super-Mare - 1920s Postcard

[cryotrash]

A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Star-Journal, Warrensburg, Missouri, December 30, 1924

[achronalart]

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

[frostedmagnolias]

Shoes by Philips Shoes

c. 1925-1935

The National Museum of Norway

[laurenillustrated]

I started drawing the Ever After High girls in random historical fashion eras… why? I have no idea

Raven Queen in 1890s, Apple White in Italian Renaissance.

Briar Beauty in 1920s, Madeline Hatter in 1880s

No particularly reason for the eras, just the vibe I get from the characters and their designs!

[happilylostinwords]

Reviewed: "Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery" by Earl Swift

Sometimes it’s necessary to read and understand things that make a person uncomfortable. At the risk of sounding pretentious, those are teachable moments. And Earl Swift delivers a profoundly important one with his telling of the so-called ‘Murder Farm Massacre’ in Jasper County, Georgia in 1921. It isn’t easy to know that slavery didn’t end when it was outlawed after the Civil War, that…

[thingsmk1120sayz]

Vintage butterfly faires..

[artschoolglasses]

'Ghostly Wood' Jar and Cover, from Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, 1916-32

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[efemmera-archive]

Lesbian Postcards illustrated by Xavier Sager (1870-1930)

[beggars-opera]

Hey since we're in the 20s again can we bring back heavy eyeliner for all genders please. Those silent film guys knew what was what

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Pair of womens ice skates by Champion.

Date: ca. 1920

[yiddisheyfe]

"Literacy is the path to communism!"

Yiddish language variation of a propaganda poster for the Soviet Likbez campaign which was established in 1920 to eliminate illiteracy through various means, including the establishment of reading rooms in villages, and reading competitions between trade union members in neighboring locals and factories.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Birmingham News, Alabama, June 24, 1922

[steampunktendencies]

1920s Vintage Porcelain Toaster

[frostedmagnolias]

Ballet costume worn by Anna Pavlova for “The Swan”, silk and sequined cotton

believed to be worn c. 1910s-1920s

credit: Museum of London