Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s

A celebration of all that's beautiful, strange and exciting about the 1920s, with a few excursions into the teens and 30s.

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Australian pandemic photograph - National Library of Australia 

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Typists wearing masks during influenza pandemic - Botanical Gardens, Sydney, NSW (State Library of NSW)

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And a New Year’s greeting to you all from this 1912 postcard

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Art Nouveau New Year’s postcard, 1903

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Postcard used 1912, but the style of the gown and hair strikes me as quite a few years earlier. 

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Here’s to what lies behind us...

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Get your New Year’s Champagne on - and here’s good luck to us all 

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Edwardian New Year’s postcard

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Here’s hoping we’re sailing into a better New Year 

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New Year’s Eve postcard, 1930s

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Ringing in the New Year, 1911

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A Happy New Year! 

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New Year’s postcard, 1908

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So who’s up for a threesome with a grenadier and a sailor? 

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1930 postcard - because what would Christmas be without Krampus? 

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Christmas postcard, 1911

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When you may have overdone the holly....