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I. THE AGE: AN OVERVIEW

  1. "The Age We Live In"
    • - Collected commentary on "the age," 1920s
  2. Only Yesterday Year by Year
    • - Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties, 1931, selections
  3. Chicago Tribune Political Cartoons
    • - Chicago Tribune political cartoons, two per year, 1918-1929
  4. New Yorker Cartoons
    • New Yorker cartoons on "the Age," 1925-1929
  5. Felix the Cat Animated Cartoons (1920s)
    • - Felix Busts a Bubble, 1926 [flapper's dream of stardom]
    • - Felix Saves the Day, 1922 [interracial baseball game]
    • - Felix Revolts, 1923 [labor strike]
    • - Felix in Hollywood, 1923 [movie industry]
    • - Felix Doubles for Darwin, 1924 [evolution]
    • - Felix Finds Out, 1924 [Prohibition]
    • - All Puzzled, 1925 [Red Scare]
    • - The Non-Stop Fright, 1927 [Lindbergh]
  6. Detroit News Newsreels (1920s)
  7. New York City Subway Posters
    • - Subway poster collection, New York City, 1918-1932
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II. MODERNITY

  1. Modern Youth
    • - Collected commentary on modern youth, 1920-1931
    • - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," short story, Saturday Evening Post, May 1, 1920
    • - Silent films
      • - The Flapper, 1920
      • - Our Dancing Daughters, 1928 (three clips)
      • - Our Modern Maidens, 1929 (three clips)
  2. Modern Woman
    • - Collected commentary on the modern woman, 1920s
    • - Alvah Posen, Them Days Is Gone Forever, comic strip series, selection, 1922-1923
    • - Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, novel, 1920, excerpts: Carol Kennicott in Washington, DC
    • - Newsreel (silent): "Are Women's Sports Too Strenuous?" 1925
  3. Modern Democracy
    • - Collected commentary on democracy in postwar America, 1918-1929
  4. Modern Faith
    • - Collected commentary, 1919-1929
  5. Modern City
    • - Lewis Mumford, "The Intolerable City: Must It Keep On Growing?" Harper's, February 1926, excerpt
    • - Collected commentary on the skyscraper, 1920s
    • - Newsreels (silent)
      • - "Old and New Detroit," 1923
      • - "905 Feet High" (New York City), 1929
    • - Poetry on the modern city
      • - Robert Frost, "A Brook in the City," 1921
      • - Hart Crane, "To Brooklyn Bridge," 1930
  6. Modern City in Art [New York City]
    • - Chart: New York City in Visual Art of the 1920s
    • - Charles Sheeler, Skyscrapers, oil on canvas, 1922
    • - Louis Lozowick, New York, lithograph, ca. 1925
    • - Edward Steichen, Sunday Night, 40th Street, gelatin silver print, ca. 1925
    • - Georgia O'Keeffe, City Night, oil on canvas, 1926
    • - Edward Hopper, From Williamsburg Bridge, oil on canvas, 1928
    • - Walker Evans, Brooklyn Bridge, gelatin silver print, 1929
    • - Martin Lewis, Glow of the City, drypoint on tan laid paper with blue fibers, 1929
    • - Bertram Hartman, Trinity Church and Wall Street, oil on canvas, 1929
    • - Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Broadway, oil on canvas, 1929
  7. Modern City in Film
    • - Manhatta, silent art film, 1921
      • - Intertitles text from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    • - Skyscraper Symphony, silent art film, 1929
    • - The Crowd, Hollywood silent film, 1928, opening sequence
    • - Cockeyed, special-effects newsreel, ca. 1925, clip
    • - "The City of Skyscrapers," newsreel, early 1920s
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III. MACHINE

  1. "Machine Age"
    • - Collected commentary, 1920-1930
    • - Charles Demuth, My Egypt, oil on fiberboard, 1927
  2. Factory
    • - Charles Sheeler, industrial landscapes, 1927-1932
      • - Ford River Rouge industrial complex, Detroit, photographs, 1927
      • - American Landscape, oil on canvas, 1930
      • - Classic Landscape, oil on canvas, 1931
      • - River Rouge Plant, oil on canvas, 1932
    • - Silent films by Ford Motor Company, ca. 1932
      • - A Tour thru the Rouge Plants
      • - The Source of the Ford Car
  3. Automobile
    • - Collected commentary, 1920-1932
    • - Will Rogers, humorist, on traffic safety
      • - Syndicated column, April 4, 1926
      • - Address to traffic chiefs, sound recording, June 2, 1923
        -Transcript
    • - Silent film: Wheels of Progress, U.S. Bureau of Roads, ca. 1927
      • - Intertitles text
    • - Newsreels (silent)
      • - "Motorists try brakes for police department," 1927
      • - "Had your automobile brakes tested yet?" 1928
  4. Airplane
    • - "Has Aviation a Future," The Forum, August 1928, excerpts
    • - The "Aeroplane" in Art
      • - Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Aeroplane Synchromy in Yellow-Orange, oil on canvas, 1920
      • - Elsie Driggs, Aeroplane, oil on canvas, 1928
    • - Newsreels on aviation innovations, 1923-1930 (silent/sound, 7)
    • - On the "phenomenon of Lindbergh," by Fitzhugh Green, in Lindbergh, "We," 1927
    • - Lindbergh-inspired animated cartoons
      • - Felix the Cat, The Non-Stop Fright, 1927 (silent)
      • - Mickey Mouse, Plane Crazy, 1928 (sound)
  5. Radio
    • - Collected commentary on the value of the radio, 1920
    • - WLS Chicago Showboat, the "Floating Palace of Wonder," variety program, broadcast, ca. 1926, audio & transcript
  6. Movies
    • - Herbert Blumer, Movies and Conduct, 1933, Ch. 10, "Schemes of Life," excerpts
    • - Monta Bell, "Movies & Talkies," The North American Review, October 1928
    • - From Silent to Sound in twenty-two minutes
    • - Live-action films (scenes)
      • - Silent: La Bohème, 1926
      • - Sound: Show Girl in Hollywood, 1930
    • - Animated cartoons
      • - Silent: Felix in Hollywood, Felix the Cat, 1923
      • - Sound: Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse, 1928
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IV. PROSPERITY

  1. "Age of Prosperity"
    • - Collected commentary on economic prosperity in the 1920s
    • - Political cartoons (12); cartoonist analysis chart
  2. Business
    • - Collected commentary on business in the 1920s
    • - Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, 1925, excerpts
  3. Consumerism
    • - Collected commentary
    • - Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue, oil on canvas, 1931
    • - Humorists on advertising
      • - Robert Benchley, "How to Sell Goods," New York World, May 10, 1920
      • - Will Rogers, syndicated column on advertising slogans, April 12, 1925
    • - Theater commercials (silent) for flour, hand cleaner, and the electric refrigerator
  4. Crash
    • - Collected commentary on the 1929 stock market crash, 1928-1938
    • - Political cartoons (12); cartoonist analysis chart
  5. Labor Union
    • - AFL, Letters to a Bishop, 1920, correspondence between Samuel Gompers and William Quayle, 1920, excerpts
    • - AFL Declaration: The Challenge Accepted—Labor Will Not Be Outlawed or Enslaved, 1921, excerpts
    • - AFL silent film: Labor's Reward, 1925 (clip, and third reel)
  6. Labor Strike
    • - 1919 Seattle General Strike: coverage from labor and general distribution newspapers
    • - Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, novel, 1922, ch. 27: the labor strike
    • - Silent animated cartoons
      • - Mutt & Jeff, On Strike, 1920
      • - Felix the Cat, Felix Revolts, 1923
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V. DIVISIONS

  1. Ku Klux Klan
    • - Collected commentary on the Ku Klux Klan, 1919-1929
    • - Political cartoons on the Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1928 (16); cartoon analysis chart
    • - Newsreel (silent): Klan parade in Washington, DC, August 1925
    • - Sound recording: Will Rogers, "Timely Topics," humor monologue, 1923 (with transcript)
  2. Black & White
    • - Collected commentary on race in America, 1919-1930
    • - Political cartoons on race, 1919-1928 (18); cartoon analysis chart
    • - Aaron Douglas, Charleston, gouache painting, ca. 1928
    • - W. E. B. Du Bois on the 1917 East St. Louis race riot, essay, 1917
    • - Clarence Darrow on the Sweet murder trials, Detroit, 1925-1926
    • - Silent film drama: Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates, 1920
    • - Miscegenation scene in Show Boat, Broadway musical by Kern & Hammerstein, 1927
  3. City & Town
    • - Collected commentary
    • - Sinclair Lewis
      • - Main Street, novel, 1920: Carol Kennicott in Washington, DC
      • - Babbitt, novel, 1922: Babbitt's booster speech on the town of Zenith
    • - Robert Frost, "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things," poem, 1920
  4. Wets & Drys
    • - "Five Years of Prohibition and Its Results," The North American Review, summer & fall, 1925, excerpts
    • - Political cartoons, 1921-1930 (8); cartoon analysis chart
    • - Edward Hopper, The Bootleggers, oil on canvas, 1925
    • - Newsreels (sound)
      • - "The Dodgers! A Prohibition Sidelight from Buffalo," 1931
      • - "Someone Is Going Short of Christmas Spirits!" 1932
  5. Religion & Science
    • - Collected commentary on the religion-science debate, 1922-1930
    • - Silent animated cartoon: Felix the Cat, Felix Doubles for Darwin, 1924
  6. Labor & Capital
    • - Collected commentary, 1919-1929
    • - Political cartoons, 1919-1926 (14); cartoon analysis chart
  7. Native & Foreign
    • - Collected commentary
    • - Political cartoons, 1919-1924 (5); cartoon analysis chart
  8. "Reds" & "Americans"
    • - Collected commentary on the Red Scare, 1918-1931
    • - Political cartoons on the Red Scare, 1919-1926 (8); cartoon analysis chart
    • - Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, novel, 1922: Good Citizens' League
    • - Political addresses on "Americanism," 1920 (recordings, with transcripts)
      • - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Party
      • - Leonard Wood, Republican Party
    • - Silent animated films
      • - Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-IWW Rat, Ford Motor Co., 1919
      • - Felix the Cat, All Puzzled, 1925