The passage of the Volstead Act prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol and spawned a black market network of smuggling and speakeasies. Gangsters like Al Capone captured the public\'s imagination. Fashionable, fun-loving women wore short skirts and even shorter hair. Business was booming in many industries and, for the first time, people were buying on credit. Speculation in the stock market was at an all-time high as a "get rich quick" mentality took hold, but the artificially inflated bubble burst on October 24, 1929. The stock market crash closed out the 1920s with a bang.
The following documents are just a sampling of the offerings available in this volume:
New York Dada first and only issue of Dadaist magazine by Man Ray
Maidenform Brassiere Patent drawings and documentation, text facsimile
Alfred E. Smith\'s speech on Religious Bigotry
Reports and memos by J. Edgar Hoover, both as a special agent and Justice Department Attorney, on the activities of black nationalist Marcus Garvey
"The Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame football: article by Grantland Rice and photograph of the players
"Far From Well," book review by author and poet Dorothy Parker
"Plan-Isometric and Elevation of a Minimum Dymaxion home and patent application by R. Buckminster Fuller
Handbook for Guardians of Camp Fire Girls, 1924
"Open Letter to the Pullman Company," by A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Journal entry of May 5, 1926, by Robert Goddard documenting the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket
Daily Worker editorial cartoons covering the trial, sentencing, and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Photograph of American Indian Chiefs Frank Seelatse and Jimmy Noah Saluskin
The Care and Feeding of Children, a guidebook for new parents
