Pageant of Peterborough, New Hamphshire – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
Pageant of Peterborough, New Hamphshire comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pageant of Peterborough, New Hamphshire
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Unlike the town views on this board, this print records a community pageant: the Pageant of Peterborough, New Hampshire, staged around 1910 with local residents performing scenes from the town's past. Its copyright credit to the MacDowell Memorial Association links it to the MacDowell Colony, the artists' retreat established in Peterborough after the composer Edward MacDowell died in 1908. The pageant's text was written by the poet Percy MacKaye. Pageants like this were popular across New England in the early twentieth century, when towns turned local history into public theater, and this print preserves one such moment of civic performance.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910. |
| Notes | J145178 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by MacDowell Memorial Association. No. 21. |
| Subjects | Historical pageants--New Hampshire--Peterborough (Town)--1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167780 |
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