Setting: Germany, 1920s-1940s

Scenario: A female character is born to a middle or upper class family in Germany c. 1916-1918. (I’m not sure yet where she’s from, but if it makes a difference for early education, I’m thinking about Berlin, Bonn, or somewhere in Bavaria.) After her primary/secondary education she completes the university admission ( Read more... )

I'm looking for some information about what would go on in a typing bureau in the interwar years. I can find photos, but no details of how one would have operated. I can also find things about typing pools in big companies, but this is a separate business. In particular I am curious about ( Read more... )

setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

EDIT: So far I've been searching "red rose varieties" (and other arrangements of those words), which led me to a site containing information on the oldest varieties of hybrid tea roses, but I'm not sure what to narrow it down to specifically to find "red and white roses a very wealthy person would have growing outside his mansion".  As for ( Read more... )

I'm writing about two men from New York, starting in the Great Depression and WWII, and ending in the 21st century, and I'm trying to develop some background for them to use across two separate stories, possibly even more ( Read more... )

Searched: how much did a nurse make 1929, salary hospital nurse 1929, how much did a doctor make 1929, how much did a doctor housecall cost 1929, rent brooklyn 1929; repalced "!929" with "1920s" and "1930s". I've been searching for about four hours now ( Read more... )

My story is set on a private island in the UK in the early 1930's. There is a mix of the latest/greatest technology (for the bosses) and run-of-the-mill/slightly out of date technology (for the support staff ( Read more... )

Setting: Connecticut, 1915 & New York, 1924. The family is fairly standard New England Protestant, somewhat rigid, not exactly wealthy but comfortable and refined ( Read more... )

A very detailed website based on photo research. Need to know about the details of your WWI military character's uniform buttons? What did the last big ladies' hats look like, right before close-fitting headgear came into style? Your fashionable 20s character has bobbed her hair, but does she have a classic Orchid Bob or an extreme Eton Crop? What ( Read more... )

I need to describe how a smart ten-year-old sabotages a sibling's bicycle in 1930, in such a way that the rider will have a wreck going down a hill--maybe when he hits his brake ( Read more... )