Help me pick one free font to represent each decade between 1880 and 1980

I would probably be leaning toward something like http://new.myfonts.com/search/cooper/fonts/ for the 1970s (god knows how many of my mass-market childhood books had that font) but I tend to go for subtlety. Maybe for the 1920s (1930s?) http://new.myfonts.com/search/broadway+engraved/fonts/ might be a good pick. You can of course go to http://new.myfonts.com/tags/1950s/ and just change "1950s" to "1940s" and so forth to get selections. Another good idea is to look through magazines from the era online, look at the advertisements for recurring fonts, and snip out portions and run them through WhatTheFont.

Oh! and http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/modern-no-20/ is the font for the 1920s. Think of those bank interiors by Edward Hopper and imagine this on the invoices in the file cabinets. I should be making pancakes for brunch, and instead I'm looking up fonts for you!

I should mention, so far I have: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s http://www.dafont.com/kingthings-slipperylip.font http://www.dafont.com/bell-bottom-laser.font 1980s I will fill in the rest as they are suggested! Also I should mention that this is for a predominantly North American audience.

http://www.linotype.com/488/gillsans-family.html has always reminded me of 1930s, New Deal-era signage.

1980's: http://www.dafont.com/futurism.font?nb_ppp=50 http://www.dafont.com/polygon-power.font?nb_ppp=50

sonic meat machine, I think I'm going for "stereotypes of the era", since the fonts are just a bit of eye candy. Period fonts would be cool, but I'm really just looking for a visual shorthand for each era.

sorry, forgot to activate the links... for the 1980's, http://www.dafont.com/polygon-power.font?nb_ppp=50 and this one of the http://www.dafont.com/futurism.font?nb_ppp=50

One of http://www.dafont.com/rio-grande.font http://www.dafont.com/nashville.font for the 1880s or 1890s? http://www.dafont.com/velocette.font for the.... 40s? (Sorry, my history is failing me a little). Actually, OMG, I started looking at the "http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=115" category on Dafont (it's a subcategory of 'fancy') and there are SO MANY. Especially art deco. It's a gold mine.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/type/search.cfm?loc=EN&term=coronet&store=OLS-US&category_type=Package%2CFace&go=Go is perfect for the 1950s. Think of the cocktail napkins and "Starlite Bowling" alleys of the time.