Roaring Twenties: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	1920s • Nineteen Twenties • Jazz Age
Date	1920 - 1929
Location	Europe • United States

Photos

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Josephine Baker poses in a feathered costume with an elaborate feathered headdress, smiling and raising one arm, circa 1926.

A San Francisco speakeasy

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