Alice Paul, New Jersey suffragist leader, Photograph,
September 3, 1920. Source: Library of Congress
Featured personalities will include New Jersey governors,
gangsters, bootleggers, temperance lobbyists, and suffragettes.
The exhibition will also delve into
the moral, religious, and political
sentiments that shaped America’s
“noble experiment” and consider how the horrors of excessive
drinking and the cry for social reform fueled the Temperance and
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Woman’s Two Piece Day Dress, c. 1920s, Crepe,
Collection of the Morris Museum. Shown with
garter flask.
Suffrage Movements.
The exhibit contains fashions of the
Roaring 20s including flapper dresses, hairstyles, and cigarette holders;
authentic barware and flasks; histor-
ic photographs; propaganda materials; and music, dance, literature, and
films of the era.
The Morris Museum is located
at 6 Normandy Heights Road in
Morristown, NJ.
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