1930s: Fashion
American fashions shifted in the 1930s. The 1920s had been a decade of excess. Fashions for both young men and women—the "sheiks" and "flappers"ȁ...
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Tests and Trials.
For many, the 1930s were a squalid decade, introduced by financial collapse that threatened the foundations of the nation and ended by the threat of involvement in wars in both Euro...
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The Biggest Health Concern.
In the 1930s the biggest health concern of America was how to pay for medical needs. The national income was less than half of what it had been in 1929, and in several sta...
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The Rise of Mass Media.
The 1930s made a lasting impact on American mass media. Despite the Depression several of the mass media in the United States underwent considerable growth during the 1930s. E...
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Endings and Beginnings
Adjusting to Austerity
Streamline Moderne
The Bauhaus
Organic Architecture
A New Look for Cars
American Fashion
Hollywood
Daily Wear
Roadside Americana
Getting By
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On the Road.
In the summer of 1935 a gangling, fourteen-year-old Arkansas farm boy named Lee Webster hiked twenty miles from his home in Landis to the nearest paved highway, caught a ride, and went l...
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1930s: Fashion
America 1930-1939: Science and Technology