Jump in to our time machine as we take you back 100 years to the United Sates in 1924. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images that you think relates to your life now, that is the crucial moment when you do feel you have that electrifying link all the way back to that moment and to you right now…
United States: c. 1924. Four young women students of dance perform an airborn leap. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Los Angeles, California: c. 1924. Road workers pause from their ditch digging for a portrait. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Miami, Florida: c. 1924. Society women board a fishing cruiser at the Key Largo Anglers Club Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Chicago, Illinois: December 6, 1924. Tho Soon Hee, a Chinese student from Lane Technical School vanquished all competition by wiring up a radio set in one hour and twenty-eight minutes. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Berkeley, California: c. 1924. The Berkeley police department has installed a Lie Detector by which a prisoner’s sub-conscious reactions to questions are recorded by a sensitive needle on a revolving drum of paper. It has not failed in more than 1000 tests. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: December, 1924. Public Safety Director Smedley D. “Duckboards” Butler destroying barrels of beer with a pick axe during Prohibition and letting it run into the Schuylkill River. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Hollywood, Los Angeles: c. 1924. A sign advertises the opening of the Hollywoodland housing development in the hills on Mulholland Drive overlooking Los Angeles. The white building below the sign is the Kanst Art Gallery, which opened on April 1, 1924 Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Washington, D.C.: June 20, 1924. Four young women playing Mah-Jong on a floating table in a swimming pool. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Los Angeles, California: 1924. Hispanics gather on the Plaza across from The Church of Our Lady of the Angels, originally built in 1822, and rebiilt in 1869. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Newark, New Jersey: November 11, 1924. Isamu Noguchi, 19 year old star pupil of the New Leonardo da Vince Art School in New York. Here he is modeling a miniature copy of the Lincoln Monument while passersby look on in wonder and admiration. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Hollywood, California: October 17, 1924. Silent film actress Dagmar Godowsky listens to her father, composer Leopold Godowsky, play a piano concert over the radio. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Washington, D.C.: August 7, 1924. Hawaiian backstroke champion and two time Olympic gold medal winner Warren Kealoha prepares to give a swimming demonstration to a huge crowd at the Tidal Basin. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Syracuse, New York: January 25, 1924. Fire trucks and firemen fighting a $150,000 blaze in downtown Syracuse at the Manhattan Hotel and Electric Lunch cafe. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Los Angeles, California: c. 1924. A young woman wearing casual flapper sports clothing with a basketball. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
New York, New York: January 7, 1924. A view of Columbus Circle taken from a Fairchild-Fokker photographic airplane at work on the mapping of greater New York City for the city government. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
New York, New York: September 25, 1924. A technician placing lipoids in capsules for injection into the human body to treat heroin and morphine addiction. The treatment method was perfected by Dr. Alexander Horowitz, Professor at the Royal Kings University of Budapest. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
New York, New York: May 16, 1924. A cancer patient undergoing treatment from the new 200,000 volt super x-ray machine developed at Columbia University by the Department of Physics and engineers from General Electric. The patient must be protected by lead shields with only the cancer area exposed. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
East Hartland, Connecticut: c. 1924. The Junior Girl Scouts at Camp Merritt prepare their own lunches, and enjoy them too. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Miami, Florida: c. 1924. The skyline of Miami from the causeway across Biscayne Bay. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Belle Case La Follette, Campaigning for her Husband, Progressive Party Nominee for U.S. President, Robert La Follette Sr., Mount Lake Park, Maryland, USA, National Photo Company, September 1924. Credt: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Football Player, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Street Scene, Two Boys on Bicycle, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Automobile Getting Oil Changed, Washington DC, USA, August 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Orphans at Tidal Basin, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, August 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
New York Yankees Baseball Player Babe Ruth, Saluting in National Guard Uniform, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, May 28, 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Two Sailors, F.R. Hudzik and H.W. Hornbrook, Feeding Pigeons in Park, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, August 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
San Francisco, California c. 1924 View of San Francisco downtown with Market Street running towards the Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Island and assorted ferries and ships in the bay. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Group of Women from Elks Club on Amusement Park Water Ride, Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA, National Photo Company, August 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
Group of Women from Elks Club on Amusement Park Ride, Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA, National Photo Company, August 1924. Credit: Circa/Glasshouse Images/Universal Images Group 
New York, New York: c. 1924. Stock quotes are sent directly from the NY Stock Exchange to the Western Union office at 24 Walker St, NY. The operator there reads the ticker tape and punches in the data to the transmitting tape, which in turn is simultaneously sent all around the country. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
United Sates: August 5, 1924. Publisher and orator Marcus Garvey seated at his desk. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
An Iowa farmer listening to his radio set, Iowa, 9/1/1924. Credit: GG Vintage Images/Universal Images Group 
Muscle Shoals, Alabama November 11, 1924, View of piers in the giant spillway section of the Wilson Dam under construction. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
Craigville, Massachusets c 1924, The beach at Craigville on Cape Cod. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group 
New York, New York c 1924, Looking down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn from Church Ave. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
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