A new addition I'd like to add to this here blog is a little thing I'm calling "Decade Spotlight Series" where, just for fun, I give a little love for a particular decade from the 20th century in the good ol' U S of A...because I've found something I like in each of them, and think it's a nice switch-up as I tend to dedicate earlier eras to Europe. This week it's 1900-1910, or "the Edwardian Age". This decade is known for ragtime, barbershop quartets, and dixieland of course, as well as art nouveau posters such as this for example:
(another one of my favorite things btw? Absinthe lol). It was also known for medical and technological advances. Although Queen Victoria died in 1901, a lot of Victorian customs still held sway and carried over into the new decade. Then there was the Gibson girl who set the model for hair and fashion:
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Music Links:
Accuradio.com: Dixieland
Radio Nightingale: Ragtime
Samantha series
Summer, 1904
September-October, 1904
December 9-25, 1904
May 26-June, 1905
Summer, 1905
January-February 14, 1906
March-May, 1906
Winter, 1904
December, 1904
March, 1905
Spring, 1905
May 1-5, 1905
April 15-22, 1906
November, 1906
Early winter, 1907
January, 1907
Winter, 1907
Summer, 1907
History Mysteries
Spring, 1904
April, 1906
April, 1908
Dear America series
My America
1903
1903
1903
Recommended nonfiction:
1900-1920
Over 100 full-page, royalty-free illustrations document what well-dressed American men wore in early 1900s: checked and striped business suits, sporty knickers and jackets, elegant formal wear, long fur-trimmed coats, and more. Includes variety of accessories: canes, gloves, spats. Images have been selected from rare issues of The Sartorial Art Journal, published between 1900 and 1910.
"roughly 1890-1905"
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