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A young woman poses in a costume that includes shorts, high heels, print fabric, and a stovepipe hat.
Studio portrait of E. M. Winterbourne. He wears glasses, a suit, and tie.
Colorado City Hose Team pose in front of the diagonal batten door outside the brick fire station, South Twenty-sixth and Cucharas streets, El Paso County, Colorado. The men stand wearing dark underwear shirts and shorts with arms crossed and their brass hose nozzle proudly on display in front of them.

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Wartime bride scrapbook pages with visible phonebook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)
Wartime bride scrapbook pages. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)
Wartime bride scrapbook cover. Scrapbook made from old telephone book. Gertrude Reasor Papers (WH883)

Scrapbook pages from the Gertrude Reasor Papers

Dancers from the Georgia Land School of Dancing pose for a group photo in Denver, Colorado. The women, part of the Georgia Lane Group, wear short fringed skirts, bikini tops with sheer fabric overlays, and  have their hair marcelled (waved). The woman posed at the extreme left is Sarah Francis "Sally" Orr.
Portrait of Denver Community Players in Denver, Colorado; William Myatt is in a jester costume, a woman in a satin flapper outfit looks on.
A studio portrait of Grayce Smith a possible student at North High School and a member of the Kismet Club.  She has her hair slicked back and is wearing a black stain top with white lace pinned to it.  She wearing a triple strand pearl necklace.

Ladies' hairstyles of the 1920s

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