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Though this event already took place, I think it is cool to think about how Fitzgerald's work could be translated into a ballet! Neat!

"The purpose of this video is to show the main events and fashions of the 1920s. Music: Number 1: Artist: Duke Ellington The Mooche Number 2: "Charleston" by the 'Dixieland Jazz Band' "

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Former German chancellor Gustav Stresemann initiates a move toward rapprochement with a note written February 9 and makes arrangements to meet with French and British foreign ministers at the Swiss city of Locarno.

Approximately 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper.

The Great Gatsby takes place during the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald coined the phrase, "the Jazz Age" that same year to describe the flamboyant-"anything goes"-era that emerged in America after World War I. Find out more about the popular culture and historical events that shaped and defined the 1920s.