US early 20th century photographs (part 11)

This is the eleventh part of the collection images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives early 20th century. There are mainly pictures 1925-1926 period.

Except for a recession in 1920-1921, the United States enjoyed a period of prosperity. Good times were widespread for all sectors (except agriculture and coal mining). New industries (especially electric power, movies, automobiles, gasoline, tourist travel, highway construction and housing) flourished.
"The business of America is business," proclaimed President Coolidge. Entrepreneurship flourished and was widely hailed. Business interests had captured control of the regulatory agencies established before 1915 and used progressive rhetoric, emphasizing technological efficiency and prosperity as the keys to social improvement. William Allen White, a leading progressive spokesman, supported GOP candidate Herbert Hoover in 1928 as one who could "spiritualize" business prosperity and make it serve progressive ends.
Energy was a key to the economy, especially electricity and oil. As electrification reached all the cities and towns, consumers demanded new products such as light bulbs, refrigerators and toasters. Factories installed electric motors and saw productivity surge. With the oil booms in Texas, Oklahoma, California, the United States dominated world petroleum production, now even more important in an age of automobiles and trucks.