1920s Campaign Resources
A website I found (Sadly it has not been updated since 2004), which covers the darker side of the recording/music industry. The basic scam is fairly straightforward, you write your lyrics, send them in with a fee to the company and they set it to music, of course all the company is interested in is the fee and all you get is either sheet music or a recording done by the companies session artists.
The oldest known examples of the scam date from the early 1900s and may have died with the rise of the internet. The website which has a lot of interesting old documents re-produced is linked below, I'm thinking there may be a scenario in it, but I'm not sure:
http://www.songpoemmusic.com/
The oldest known examples of the scam date from the early 1900s and may have died with the rise of the internet. The website which has a lot of interesting old documents re-produced is linked below, I'm thinking there may be a scenario in it, but I'm not sure:
http://www.songpoemmusic.com/
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
This is a blog related to the Song-poem scam. The owner makes available tracks from his collection, these are from after the classic period (1950s - 1980s), however in posts since May of 2016 he has been including scans of adverts by Song-poem companies, some of these are from the post WWII period, however quite a few are from the 1920s, including one posted on the 23rd of January 2017 which implies that the 'song-poets' work could end up being performed in an Opera House...
http://bobpurse.blogspot.com.au/
http://bobpurse.blogspot.com.au/
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
The link below is to a channel which is doing a very interesting series for firearms collectors. At the moment they are focusing on weapons used in World War I. The value of this series is that they give you a detailed history of a particular weapon, an explanation of how it works, a demonstration of it being shot and finally the shooters opinion of the weapon.
The shooter they use is female, because she is the best fit for the average height/build of the WWI soldier they could find.
C&Rsenal: In Depth Firearm History
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq1dv ... UUy0SiSDOQ
The shooter they use is female, because she is the best fit for the average height/build of the WWI soldier they could find.
C&Rsenal: In Depth Firearm History
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq1dv ... UUy0SiSDOQ
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
I follow this channel and quite enjoy it, but I'd take any US history they talk about with a grain of salt; the presenter obviously has some very biased (and incorrect) views on the civil war. Probably not a problem with WWI history though.Graham wrote:The link below is to a channel which is doing a very interesting series for firearms collectors. At the moment they are focusing on weapons used in World War I. The value of this series is that they give you a detailed history of a particular weapon, an explanation of how it works, a demonstration of it being shot and finally the shooters opinion of the weapon.
The shooter they use is female, because she is the best fit for the average height/build of the WWI soldier they could find.
C&Rsenal: In Depth Firearm History
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq1dv ... UUy0SiSDOQ
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Some resource I found via Metafilter:
Take a Google Streetview tour of 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, aka ESP, the former Eastern State Penitentiary. It operated from 1829 until 1971, so easily a place investigators or their targets, informants and friends could wind up in.
A partial index of published architectural rendering. Covers 1900 and on, just click year at the top right.
Take a Google Streetview tour of 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, aka ESP, the former Eastern State Penitentiary. It operated from 1829 until 1971, so easily a place investigators or their targets, informants and friends could wind up in.
A partial index of published architectural rendering. Covers 1900 and on, just click year at the top right.
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Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.
Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.
Similar thoughts here, but I found this interesting item on a Civil War History blog about the birth of Battlefield Tourism in post Civil War America, which has a link to the pioneering brochure.Canageek wrote:I follow this channel and quite enjoy it, but I'd take any US history they talk about with a grain of salt; the presenter obviously has some very biased (and incorrect) views on the civil war. Probably not a problem with WWI history though.
A Head Start to Battlefield Tourism by a VI Corps Carpetbagger
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2017/02/02 ... d-tourism/
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
What I am offering here are a set of short plays, which Keepers could make use of, either as the plot for a film being made or something put on by amateur dramatic societies to which the Investigators are invited.
A Touch of Nature by Benjamin Webster (c.1859) - One Act Play.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54172
Six One-Act Plays by Margaret Scott Oliver (1916)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39243
Contemporary One-Act Plays by B. Roland Lewis et al. (1922)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37970
Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy (Undated)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5060
A Touch of Nature by Benjamin Webster (c.1859) - One Act Play.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54172
Six One-Act Plays by Margaret Scott Oliver (1916)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39243
Contemporary One-Act Plays by B. Roland Lewis et al. (1922)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37970
Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy (Undated)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5060
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
A quartet of sketch books published at the start of WWI, which are perfect for Keepers looking for illustrations to show Investigators.
London at Night by Frederick Carter (1914)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54166
Florence; A Sketch-Book by Fred Richards (1914)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54199
Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey (1915)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54197
Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey (1915)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54197
London at Night by Frederick Carter (1914)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54166
Florence; A Sketch-Book by Fred Richards (1914)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54199
Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey (1915)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54197
Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey (1915)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54197
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
A further set of short plays that Keepers might wish to make use of, this time by some very well known authors:
Echoes of the War by J. M. Barrie (Undated)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9617
One Day More: A Play In One Act by Joseph Conrad (1919)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17621
First Plays by A. A. Milne (c. 1920)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7805
Second Plays by A. A. Milne (c. 1921)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14734
Echoes of the War by J. M. Barrie (Undated)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9617
One Day More: A Play In One Act by Joseph Conrad (1919)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17621
First Plays by A. A. Milne (c. 1920)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7805
Second Plays by A. A. Milne (c. 1921)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14734
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
These aren't specifically 1920s, but this seems to be the thread everyone checks. I can put future posts like this in the Canageek's Resources Thread if you want.
The Appendix: This is a semi-academic journal that has now ended. I know, that sound dry, but it has a lot of useful stuff in it. From the first issue alone:
The Appendix: This is a semi-academic journal that has now ended. I know, that sound dry, but it has a lot of useful stuff in it. From the first issue alone:
- Prophecy of Benjamin, The Anti-Christ: Includes primary documents, details the end of the United States as set down in San Franscico in 1866.
- Amazonia 1952: FOUND Details of the wreck and recovery of a crashed airliner in 1952, including the unofficial paratroopers sent to investigate the site ahead of time and the conflict between them and the official team.
- Local History Excerpt: I Rode with Red Scout: When Yellowstone’s Early Tourists Stumbled into Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce’s Final War: Details an encounter between tourists in Yellowstone and a native group that was trying to escape the US Cavalry to Canada, with first person accounts.
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Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.
Plays GURPS, Call of Cthulhu and a few other things.