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1921: A Year in the Collections

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to the year 1921. Held in trust for the American people, the Smithsonian’s collections document our nation’s shared history, art from across the globe, and the immense diversity of the natural and cultural world. Visit Smithsonian Open Access where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s 2D and 3D images.


1921

Composition

Merry Xmas, 1921

No. 5

20 Dollars, United States, 1921

print

Stakkels Johanne

Georges Carpentier and Babe Ruth

History of the October Revolution

Flapper (1921)

Rudolph Valentino

Curtiss (NAF) TS-2/3

Peacock Side Chair

Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians

Medal, 1921 International Aero Congress

Proposed Convocation Tower, Madison Square (Northeast Corner of Madison Avenue and East 26th Streeet)

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."--Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, June 1, 1921. From the series Great Ideas of Eastern Man.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

"Riot penny" charred during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Warren G. Harding

Ruins of the Tulsa Race Riot 6-1-21

Isadora Duncan

Plenty Coups

print

Wax Trillium (Trillium album)

Michio Ito

Mystery Clock with Single Axle

Ethiopia

Samuel Gompers

Nakamura Kichiemon as Hoshikage, from the series Flowers of the Theatrical World

Albert Einstein

D. W. Griffith

Rooftops

Dr. Joseph Charles Price

Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier


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