America’s Paris: the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
The amazing flowering of cultural expression in Harlem in the 1920s continues to resonate in American and world history today, a century later.
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Interiors: Corridor of the Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
This quiet corridor in Chicago's historic hotel has echoed with the quiet footsteps of guests since it opened in 1920.