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1910-1920 Memories in an attic
Ina Lyon
Sally Manwell
Lady Doll from 1910
Robert Bradshaw
Blanket Chest
Nic Nicols
Rocking Chair
Richard Lyon
Pulp Magazines; Wizard of Oz Book
Kazuko Nakamura
Mannequin for Uniform
Life Magazine Reproduced Articles written
during 1910-1920
A Deadly Development. Germany began using gas
in 1915
Private T.P. Laughlin of the NY Natl Guard said goodbye to wife and
family 1917. He was one of the first doughboys to go into war.
1918, Seattle cops wore masks to guard against Spanish flu, brought
back with transiting soldiers. It killed a half million in the U. S,
and 20 million worldwide.
Chronicle of the 20th Century Reproduced Articles written during 1910-1920
Poster - Take a Kodak with you
Poster - Coca Cola
Poster - Texaco Star
Poster - Cohan wrote "Over There" the day war was declared
Poster - Over The Top for you - Buy U.S. Gov't Bonds -
Third Liberty Loan
Poster - For Freedom Then, For Freedom Now
Poster - The Birth of a Nation - classic black/white Movie Advertisment
11/20/1910 Tolstoy's life has ended
8/27/1910 Talking pictures: Edison's latest invention
4/23/1910 Royals open World's Fair in Brussels
3/25/1911 Triangle fire kills 146; most are girls
5/30/1911 Indianapolis 500 run for first time
4/15, 1912 Iceberg sinks Titanic drowning 1,595
12/7/1912 Nefertiti's statue discovered in Egypt
11/5/1912 Wilson wins presidency with minority vote
11/4/1912 Czar's heir suffers from hemophilia
12/10/1912 Alexis Carrel wins Nobel for medicine
10/7/1913 Henry Ford establishes first assembly line in
Highland Park, Michigan
5/12/1915 Lusitania sunk; 124 Americans lost
Dec 1915 Einstein develops new theory of relativity
10/16/1916 Mrs. Sanger offers birth control help
5/18/1917 Presiden Wilson signed Selective Service bill.
4/6/1917 U.S. Congress votes to enter the war
10/15/1917 French execute Mata Hari for espionage
10/1/1918 Draft registration goes on in America
11/11/1918 Victory! Armistice signed by Germans
7/4/1919 Jack Dempsey wins heavyweight crown
Ina Lyon
Uniform made from a pair of World War I pants; Helmet; Gas Mask;
Background
painting/Scene; Boots; Boot Covers; Back Pack
