1920 A.D.

Sessue Hayakawa , originally uploaded by punalippu . The Japanese-born Hollywood star in the silent film His Birthright from 1918.

The Jazz Age cartoonist par excellence, with a handsome doggy (from the Condé Nast archives, which for some reason won't work in my brow...

"Show Monsieur the sights?" , originally uploaded by punalippu . Very early cartoon by John Held Jr. in The New York Times , 1920....

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes , originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution . During 1925, Watson Davis (1896-196...

Mildred Adams Fenton (b. 1888) , originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution . Mildred Adams Fenton (b. 1888) trained in paleontology and...