Anything Goes - Celebrating the 20s

Australian pandemic photograph - National Library of Australia 

Typists wearing masks during influenza pandemic - Botanical Gardens, Sydney, NSW (State Library of NSW)

And a New Year’s greeting to you all from this 1912 postcard

Art Nouveau New Year’s postcard, 1903

Postcard used 1912, but the style of the gown and hair strikes me as quite a few years earlier. 

Here’s to what lies behind us...

Get your New Year’s Champagne on - and here’s good luck to us all 

Edwardian New Year’s postcard

Here’s hoping we’re sailing into a better New Year 

New Year’s Eve postcard, 1930s

Ringing in the New Year, 1911

A Happy New Year! 

New Year’s postcard, 1908

So who’s up for a threesome with a grenadier and a sailor? 

1930 postcard - because what would Christmas be without Krampus? 

Christmas postcard, 1911

When you may have overdone the holly....