Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of "Flappers" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
british flapper, modern girl, flapper style, jazz, bob haircut

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Graceful Fashions for the Flapper"
The Tomahawk (White Earth, Becker County, MN), January 2, 1919, Image 3, col. 3-4.
"Everyday Flapper Clothes for Spring"
Chicago Eagle (Chicago, IL), January 25, 1919, Page 11, Image 12, , col. 3-4.
"British Flappers Like Morning 'Nip"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 8, 1919, NATIONAL EDITION, Image 1, col. 6.
"British Flappers Can't Land Jobs"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 14, 1919, FINAL EDITION, Page 20, Image 20. col. 1.
"Those Fluttering Flappers "
The Evening World (New York, NY), April 20, 1920, Final Edition, Image 21, col. 7-8.
"Flapper Philosophy..."
The Evening World (New York, NY), May 8, 1920, Final Edition, Image 10, col. 7.
"Modern Girls Face Certain Disaster; "Flappers" Called Saddest Type of All"
El Paso Herald (El Paso, TX), May 8, 1920, HOME EDITION, Cable News, Sport and Classified Section, Image 15, col. 1-2.
"Mother Not to Blame for Flapper's Flapping"
The Evening World (New York, NY), February 3, 1922, Final Edition, Page 29, Image 29, col. 1-2.
"Flapper Suits"
The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), March 26, 1922, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 31, col. 1-3.
"Flappers"
Tombstone Epitaph (Tombstone, AZ), April 30, 1922, Page 4, Image 4, col. 2.
"Old-time Jargon "Kicks in" as Flapper Evolves New Jargon"
The Morning Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, OK), May 7, 1922, FINAL EDITION, FEATURE SECTION, Image 29, col. 6-7.
"Big Business Banishes the Flapper"
The Morning Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, OK), July 16, 1922, FINAL EDTION, COMIC AND MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 26, col. 1-5.
"Even Turkey Bars the Flapper"
The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), October 1, 1922, The Standard-Examiner Sunday Feature Section, Page 2, Image 18, col. 1-6.
"Woman Always Pays, Says Girl of 14 in First Flapper Tragedy"
The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), May 1, 1922, LAST EDITION-4 P.M., Image 1, col. 4-5.
"The Origin and Rise of the Flapper"
New York Tribune (New York, NY), July 23, 1922, Page 3, Image 53, col. 2-5.
"Typical Flappers"
Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, AZ), August 2, 1922, Image 1, col. 3.

Flappers: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America