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Steve Rogers’ New York is a period historical blog centred around the ever-lovable and admirable Steven Grant Rogers, better known as Captain America! It looks at a range of elements from 1920s – Mid 1940s New York and American culture as they would relate to, would have shaped, Steve and his world view.

Film

• Top Grossing Films of the 1930s
• Top Grossing US Films of the 1930s (Images)
• The Golden Age of Film
• Top Grossing Films of 1940 to 1945
• Top 10 Grossing US Films of 1940-1945 (Images)
• Film: Top Hat
• Film: Top Hat (Images)
• Animated Disney Films  — 1938 to 2016
• Hybrid and Live-Action Disney Films  — 1938 to 2001
• Tony Martin Signed Portrait

Radio

• Radio Programme Ratings 1930-1939
• Radio Program Ratings (History)
• Radio Programme Ratings 1940-1945

Music

• Songs by Decade Masterlist: 1910 – Early 1945
• Songs by Decade: 1910s
• Songs by Decade: 1920s
• Songs by Decade: 1930s
• Songs by Decade: 1940s
• Songs from Post-WWII: 1940s

Books

• Books Released Pre-WWII
• Books Released Post-WWII
• Science Fiction Books Released Pre-WWII
• Science Fiction Books Released Post-WWII
• Fantasy Books Released Pre-WWII
• Fantasy Books Released Post-WWII

Art and Design

• “The Brooklyn Bridge” by Joseph Stella

Cars

• Cars of the 1920s and 1930s
• Cars of the 1920s and 1930s: Popular Models (Images)
• Cars of the 1920s – 1930s (Image)

Food

• 1920s Recognisable Food
• 1920s Recognisable Foods (Images)
• 1920s Recognisable Foods: Candy (Images)
• 1930s Recognisable Foods
• 1930s Recognisable Foods (Images)
• Early 1940s Recognisable Foods
• Early 1940s Recognisable Foods (Images)
• Kool-Aid
• Kool-Aid: Advertisements (Images)
• Kool-Aid: Packaging (Images)
• Jell-O: History and Development
• Jell-O: Advertisements & Marketing
• Jell-O: Products
• Jell-O: Packaging (Images) (100th Post!)
• Jell-O: Advertisements and Promotional Illustrations (Images)
• Foods in Bucky’s Apartment (Civil War) – Based on @koubashii’s post

Clothing

• Gabardine Jacket

Amenities, Buildings, and Businesses

• Ask: Automats
• Automats: Food
• Automats: History — Inspiration and Golden Age
• Automats: History — Decline
• Automats: New York Predecessor
• Automats: Social Significance
• Automats: Brooklyn Branches
• Automats: Map of Brooklyn H&H Automat Locations
• Frederick Loeser & Co. Department Store Postcard
• Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters
• Brooklyn Navy Yard — 1920s and 1930s

Inventions and Innovations

• Band-Aids
• Band-Aids (Images)

Social History

• Origins of Black History Month
• US Presidents — 1850 to Present
• Personal Details printed in Newspapers (Tid-bit)
• Shirtless Bathers (Tid-bit)
• Queer Comings Out in Early-20th Century New York

Health and medicine

• 1930s Fever Relief
• @scientia-rex ‘s Addition
• @raina16′s Addition
• Children Receiving Diphtheria Immunization (Image)

Science Fiction

• ASK: Ray Gun
• ASK: Ray vs. Disintegration Guns
• Science Fiction: Amazing Stories Pulp Magazine

After the War (Cultural Features introduced Post-WWII)

• Seat Belts
• Super Glue

Language

• Words by Decade: General Pre-1900s-1910s
• Words by Decade: General 1920-1945
• Words by Decade: General Mid to Late 1940s
• Words by Decade: General 1950s-1960s
• Words by Decade: General 1970s-2000s
• Words: Military and War Related

Let’s Have Words

• “Foxy”
• “Enough money to burn a wet mule”
• “Looped; looping”
• “Jake”
• “Know your onions”
• “Threads”
• “Girl Friday”
• “Feebie”

World War II

• Canadian Rationing Display in the Canadian War Museum

Holiday and Event Themed Posts

• 4th of July
• The Ten Greatest Fireworks Displays in NYC (Bowery Boys)
• Hallowe’en
• Dennison’s Bogie Book (Halloween and Thanksgiving – Images)
• Kroger Grocery Store Publication, Your Wartime Food, 1943 (Images)
• Hallowe’en Greeting from A&S
• Goblin Game – From Brooklyn Daily Eagle
• Hallowe’en Recipes (2016)
• Halloween Activities (Tid-bit)
• Recipe Wednesday #28  — Hallowe’en Special (2017)
• Hallowe’en in the 1920-1940s (Response post)
• Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Recipes (2016)
• “Franksgiving”: FDR’s 1939 Thanksgiving Date Change
• Christmas
• 1920s Christmas Advertisements – Toys (Images)
• 1930s-1940s Christmas Advertisements – Radios (Images)
• Christmas Music of the 1920s to Mid-1940s
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree – 1930s (Images)
• Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree – 1940s (Images)
• 2016 Advent Calendar Masterlist
• Great Depression-themed Christmas Card, c.1930s
• Art Deco Christmas card, New York Skyline, c.1930s
• Christmas Windows NYC (Ephemeral New York)
• New Years
• New Years Eve Celebrations in Times Square (Images)
• New Year’s Babies
• New Year’s Eve in New York City (Images)
• Recipe Wednesday Special: New Year’s Eve (2017)

New York in Winter

• Boys with their snow fort, c.1940
• Aerial view of snow-covered Lower Manhattan, 1941
• Trolley in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, c.1940 —   Bonus: Location Investigation
• Storefront of Rosebush Farm Products Co., 1927
• Lines of snow-covered apartment rooves, 1940
• People skating in Central Park, 1933
• A line of horse-drawn carts and trucks in the snow, 1920
• Midtown Manhattan, 1935
• Times Square, 1935
• Vehicles parked in the snow, c.1940
• 59th Street lake in Central Park, 1936
• Orchard Street, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 1926
• “Brooklyn Friends Seminary – ice skating,” by Wurts Bros., 1940

Stand-Alone Images

• View of the Lower Manhattan Skyline (Image)
• Hightstown Project: Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Soloman (Images)
• Gas Station on the Corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and Pacific St. (Images)
• Gas Station (Modern Google Comparison – Images)
• View of Manhattan from Fulton Street and Debevoise Avenue
• Aerial Photo of the New York Navy Yard
• Docks below Brooklyn Bridge, 1946
• Corner Middagh and Hicks, Brooklyn Heights, 1946

• An intersection in Bedford-Stuyvesant, c.1940s

• Men seated in Battery Park, 1941
• Children playing on a New York City sidewalk, c.1940
• Raised roadway onto Brooklyn Bridge, 1945
• Men standing on Manhattan Bridge facing Brooklyn Bridge, 1938
• Man and a Woman standing outside an apartment building, 1940
• A boy and his dog under the Brooklyn Bridge, 1947

Stand-Alone Posts

• Steve’s Age by Year
• Dates for Stark Expo and Project Rebirth
• Inflation Conversions
• Research Notes

Personal Purchases

• 1943 Map of Brooklyn – From Collier’s World Atlas and Gazetteer
• 1939 New York World’s Fair Matchbook for the Hotel St. George
• 1939 New York World’s Fair Official Postcards — Spiral Fountain
• 1939 New York World’s Fair Official Postcards — Hall of Communications
• Tony Martin Signed Portrait

Re-Blogs and Recommendations

• Reblogs and Recommendations Masterpost!

Recipe Wednesdays (And other Recipes)

• Recipe Wednesday Masterpost!
• Indexed Recipe Wednesday Masterpost
• Hallowe’en Recipe Special (2017)
• Hallowe’en Recipes (2016)
• Thanksgiving Recipes (2016)
• 2016 Advent Calendar Masterlist
• Recipe Wednesday Special: New Year’s Eve (2017)

Miscellaneous

• Happy Birthday Steve! (Recipes for Red Velvet Cake and Jell-o)

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Last Updated: 27 November 2018