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Description
Students, from left, Hung Wong, Robert Geller, Bella Geller, and Charles Wong of the Woolson School in Portland dress as Pilgrims and Indians in a re-enactment of the first Thanksgiving.
Several of the city's Americanization classes were held at the Woolson School, which drew students from the city neighborhoods where many newcomers settled.
In Portland and across the nation, historical pageantry was frequently incorporated into the Americanization curriculum as a way to teach immigrants and their children about the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship.
The photograph was published in the Portland Sunday Telegram on December 2, 1923.
About This Item
- Title: Thanksgiving pageant, Woolson School, Portland, 1923
- Creator: Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram
- Creation Date: 1923-12-02
- Subject Date: 1923
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.7442
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Americanization
- Children performing in theatrical productions--Maine--Portland
- Costumes
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Maine--Portland
- Performances
- School children--Maine--Portland
- Schools--Maine--Portland
- Thanksgiving Day
- United States--Emigration and immigration
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