Tag: Pageant

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=1
Centennial 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%2F9c39b63d9fdea3e57a19b6aaf87cb219
Centennial 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.

Off for the weekend and possibly for life at the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove, Florida. Afternoons to sip sherry alternating with ice cold Coca Colas and platters of deviled eggs. More fun than staying home embroidering sofa cushions, too. From the Woman’s Club records folder, University of Miami Libraries.

Club members sitting on a bench on Miami Beach. Florida. Written on verso: “40.” 1915 image. American. Photographer not given. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/95/rec/7
Coconut Drive, Miami Beach, Florida. (their clubhouse). Written on front: “Cocoanut Drive Miami“; Written on verso: “8.” 1915 image. American. Photographer not given. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/20/rec/24
Housekeepers Club grand benefit concert, January 15th 1914 at 7:30 PM. Tickets 25 cents. American. Photographer not given. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/5060/rec/40
Oriental tea service from the pageant, “Trip around the world. ” Imprint on front: “No 1084“; Written on verso: “Oriental Tea Service”; “TRIP AROUND THE WORLD, 1922”; “[COCONUT GROVE WOMAN’S CLUB]”; Stamped on verso: “The photo Shop 145 1-2 N.E. Second Street MIAMI, FLA Phone 6143.” 1922. American. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/11/rec/56
“Scene from the pageant, “Trip around the world.” Imprint on front: “Number 1106”; Written on verso: “21.” Part of the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Miami Florida records that are archived at the University of Miami so presumably their swimming pool and their pageant.1921-1922 image.
American. Photographer not given. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/96/rec/71



“Photograph of a pageant.” 1922 image. Part of the Woman’s Club of Coconut Grove Miami Florida records that are archived at the University of Miami so presumably photographed in Coconut Grove. American. Photographer not given. Collections of the University of Miami Libraries Digital Collections. Image itself in the public domain due to age. https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0400/id/47/rec/60

Pageants were very popular 1915-1925 ish. Some were put on by clubs, some by schools and others by houses of worship or cities and towns. Also popular at the same time were tableaux vivant which look very similar in the pictures but more of the participants were children and teenagers.