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Description
This is most likely a Junior Americanization class at the Woolson School on Chestnut Street in Portland. Colonial era pageants were a popular teaching tool in the 1920s used to inculcate reverence for early American history within the immigrant community.
About This Item
- Title: Americanization colonial pageant, Portland, ca. 1926
- Creation Date: circa 1926
- Subject Date: circa 1926
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.12828
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Americanization
- Children performing in theatrical productions--Maine--Portland
- Costumes
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Maine--Portland
- Performances
- School children--Maine--Portland
- Schools--Maine--Portland
- United States--Emigration and immigration
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