Happy New Year ~ 1925

Chicago ~ Rapid Transit Line, 1920s

Fruit box label ~ Watsonville, California

Christmas Vacation ~ California
Saturday 20th through Saturday 27th

Winter Shoes ~ 1920

Chicago

Baby Doe (Lizzie McCourt)'s Wedding Dress

Colorado State Historical Society

Christmas Card ~ 1920

Life Magazine ~ Christmas 1920

Belly Dancer ~ 1920

Vintage Fruit Crate labels ~ optional until 1913
when they became required.

Two women arrested for indecent exposure,
Chicago ~ 1920

Magazine Cover Art ~ 1920

Harem Show ~ 1920

Opening Day, 1920, Comiskey Park ~ Chicago White Sox

L. Frank Baum ~ 1856 - 1919
Works include: Wizard of Oz as well as other non-Oz books.

Silver always loved animals. Wherever she lived she had cats. The last beings to see her alive would have been her cats. When she was scalded in her flat in Chicago, her only thoughts were of her cats. She yelled to her neighbors, close the door, don't let my babies out. Probably the last words she said.

Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition.

1920 ~ 1933

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Sigmund Freud, 1856 - 1939
Interpretation of Dreams ~ 1899

Summer - Alphonse Mucha
Art Nouveau, 1890-1905

"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement." ~ Willa Cather, 1873 - 1947


"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife."

~ Louise Brooks - actress, 1906 - 1985

"A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world."

~ Louise Brooks

Nude Woman Reading ~ 1915

Vintage Burlesque Poster

Although there is no evidence that Silver performed in what we'd call strip shows today, she did earn her living for a time as an actress in traveling theater companies. This enabled her to get out of Denver when she needed to. Her purpose in moving to Chicago was to write her novel. To that end she stayed in cheap rooms and wrote around the clock until "Star of Blood" was finished.