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100 Years Ago in Photos: 2020
A Look Back at 1920
Alan Taylor January 30, 2020
33 Photos In Focus
A century ago, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified—guaranteeing women the right to vote. In Europe, two short-lived but consequential wars were under way, the Polish-Soviet War and the Irish War of Independence. The 1920 Olympic Games were held in Belgium, an unsolved bombing on Wall Street killed 38 people, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio was elected as America’s 29th president, and much more. Please take a moment to look back at some of the events and sights from around the world 100 years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/
1. In April 1920, Herbert McBride broke the world's motorcycle record for amateurs with a speed of 104.4 miles per hour....
Japanese women hold a demonstration to protest low wages paid to female factory workers
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a vice-presidential candidate, at his summer home in Campobello with his 14-year-old daughter Anna, in August 1920, on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. #
11. A "human bird" airplane is displayed at an "aero show" in July 1920. #
33. Original caption from December 19, 1920: "Mary Pickford takes a picture of husband Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who is executing a handstand on the roof of a building." #
15. Original caption: "Wall Street bomb explosion, September 16th, 1920, thirty dead." Another eight of the several hundred who were wounded later died in the hospital. Those responsible for the bombing attack in New York's financial district were never identified, though several anarchist and communist groups were suspected and investigated for years. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/
A Look Back at 1920
Alan Taylor January 30, 2020
33 Photos In Focus
A century ago, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified—guaranteeing women the right to vote. In Europe, two short-lived but consequential wars were under way, the Polish-Soviet War and the Irish War of Independence. The 1920 Olympic Games were held in Belgium, an unsolved bombing on Wall Street killed 38 people, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio was elected as America’s 29th president, and much more. Please take a moment to look back at some of the events and sights from around the world 100 years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/
1. In April 1920, Herbert McBride broke the world's motorcycle record for amateurs with a speed of 104.4 miles per hour....
Japanese women hold a demonstration to protest low wages paid to female factory workers
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a vice-presidential candidate, at his summer home in Campobello with his 14-year-old daughter Anna, in August 1920, on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. #
11. A "human bird" airplane is displayed at an "aero show" in July 1920. #
33. Original caption from December 19, 1920: "Mary Pickford takes a picture of husband Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who is executing a handstand on the roof of a building." #
15. Original caption: "Wall Street bomb explosion, September 16th, 1920, thirty dead." Another eight of the several hundred who were wounded later died in the hospital. Those responsible for the bombing attack in New York's financial district were never identified, though several anarchist and communist groups were suspected and investigated for years. #
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/1920-photos-100-years-ago/605794/
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