The Roaring Twenties

1920 - 1929. The Roaring Twenties was a time of great culture change in many major cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin. New technologies evolved like automobiles, moving pictures and radio. Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. This era also brought in the Jazz Age as this style of music grew. When Wall Street crashed in 1929 this brought on the Great Depression era.
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Susan Pringle Frost | Carolina Snaps
Susan Pringle Frost | Carolina Snaps

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Susan Pringle Frost, a Charleston native and suffragette, founded the Preservation Society of Charleston in 1920 to save the city's historic buildings after learning the Manigault House was to become...
Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps
Maude Callen | Carolina Snaps

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Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Orphaned at the age of six, Maude Callen, became an “Angel in Twilight” to many as she singlehandedly brought health care to a poverty-stricken community. After becoming orphaned, Maude went to live...
Life in The Roaring Twenties | Gracie and Lacy
Life in The Roaring Twenties | Gracie and Lacy

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Grades: 5

Students will be immersed in the music, dance, culture and history of the Roaring Twenties in this infotainment-style program. Entertainers and teaching artists Gracie and Lacy engage students through...
A True Likeness: Introduction | Carolina Stories 1
A True Likeness: Introduction | Carolina Stories
Episode 1

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Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

An old photograph taken sometime between 1912 and 1914 is found, and experts were told to visit a Miss Hattie May Cornwell, in the Arsenal Hill community of Columbia, S.C. She not only identified the...
Paving Roads With Concrete | History Of SC Slide Collection
Paving Roads With Concrete | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 21

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Paving heavily traveled roads with concrete involved such heavy costs that states sought help from the national government. This fresh concrete on a Greenville County road was part of a Federal...
The Owen-Woodward Company | History Of SC Slide Collection
The Owen-Woodward Company | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 15

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Owen-Woodward company was the second drive-in gas station in Darlington. Its signs advertise its many automotive services: "Gas, Oil, Tires and Accessories." The caption on the photograph...