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Midsummer Nights' Dream pageant – Historic Print

Midsummer Nights' Dream pageant, [between 1890 and 1940] — historic photograph
Midsummer Nights' Dream pageant, [between 1890 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This photograph records a pageant drawn from Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, with the performers' masks as the visible focus of the record. Outdoor pageants of this kind were popular in the United States from the 1890s through the 1930s, when local clubs, schools and civic groups staged scenes from literature and history with elaborate costumes. The image comes from Underwood & Underwood, a firm best known for stereographs and photographs sold in large numbers to the public. Its studio's copyright notice places the print in the commercial trade of its day, which makes it useful for seeing how amateur theatrical events were presented to a wide audience.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1940.
NotesCopyright by Underwood & Underwood.
SubjectsMasks--1890-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,026 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159914

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