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All dressed up and off to be in a pageant at the University of Virginia. 1921. This was the second year women were accepted at the school and there were only 17 female students in 1921 so thinking some of these young ladies are from a local school of the dance or perhaps sisters of male students.
Centennial Pageant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA. 1921 original negative print. Holsinger’s Studio, Charlottesville, Virginia, photographers with the photographer’s stamp in the lower right hand corner. Under copyright in 1921. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia. https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/images/items/uva-lib:2159721?idx=0&page=1Centennial Pageant held on the Lawn. Centennial Pageant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA. Usually the cross is for the Red Cross as are the flags for the various states. The dark round objects look to be fans but maybe not. The young men in uniform behind them would be members of the University of Virginia Corps of Cadets or ROTC members, this being right around when ROTC started. Anyway a fun picture by the same commercial photographer so some sort of school sanctioned event as they got Holsinger to take a picture of it. 1921 original negative. Holsinger’s Studio, Charlottesville, Virginia, photographers with the photographer’s stamp in the lower right hand corner. Under copyright in 1921. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia. https://dp.la/item/c94e14e685a5a8b1453553cae8765b1e?back_uri=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcentennial%26partner%3D%2522Digital%2BVirginias%2522%26page%3D3&next=%2Fitem%2F9c39b63d9fdea3e57a19b6aaf87cb219Centennial Pageant held on the Lawn, rotunda. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA. Aesthetic dancers with their queen seated on her throne in the center and more dancers holding up Ancient Greek ish looking shields on either side of the rotunda steps with other students in costume as the Ancients holding flags and others in international dress over on the left and two in armor over on the right. 1921 original negative. Holsinger’s Studio, Charlottesville, Virginia, photographers with the photographer’s stamp in the lower right hand corner. Under copyright in 1921. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia. https://dp.la/item/dd6c49980c2925fbfa643ce2b2782228?back_uri=%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcentennial%26partner%3D%2522Digital%2BVirginias%2522%26page%3D3&prev=%2Fitem%2Fef463ab068d3e5856ea869e4fab653f2&next=%2Fitem%2Feea637b79318efe584deca3aea87ab72
Many thanks to my friend Sue Burkey for helping me figure out the second picture.
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