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American Prohibition

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/default.htm

Texts and images.

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/

The March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic, which described the Harlem Renaissance

Louise Brooks

http://www.pandorasbox.com/

The immortal actress and the Jazz Age

Porgy, by Dubose Heyward

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/PORGY/porghome.html

The novel of Charleston on which Porgy and Bess was based.

Washington as It Was, 1923-1959

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html

Over 14,000 photographs of Washington, DC, arranged by subject.

New Deal Network

http://newdeal.feri.org/
"A large database of documents and photographs, supplemented by thematic exhibits."

U.S. Historic City Maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historic_us_cities.html
Maps of American cities, mostly from 1919 and 1920.

Berenice Abbott's Changing New York

http://www.netresource.com/mcny/abbott.html
Photographs of Manhattan, 1925-37

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