Central Park - Maypoles - Public school athletic league celebration – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Central Park - Maypoles - Public school athletic league celebration, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Central Park - Maypoles - Public school athletic league celebration
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Maypole dancing in Central Park was a May Day custom, and this picture shows the version staged by the Public School Athletic League, which used its outdoor festivals to showcase organized play and physical training for schoolchildren. Founded in New York in 1903, the league promoted athletics and fitness in the city's public schools, and events like this one gave students a public stage. The photograph belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo service active in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact year of the celebration is unknown.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,778 × 4,248 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11644 |
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