Pageant Exhibition Panel 20 - The Departure of the Minutemen
description- – The Lancaster Militia departing while the women console themselves during Episode IV, The Minutemen, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. On the morning of April 19, 1775, the news that the British troops under General Thomas Gage had left Boston for Lexington and Concord, and that the first shots had been fired there in the American Revolutionary War reached Lancaster. The calls went out across the region, and men swarmed to the town common to join the American forces and come to the aid of Boston. In the end two hundred and fifty men set out from Lancaster. Most remained in Cambridge for only two weeks, but a third remained in service for the remaining months of 1775. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. DEPARTURE OF THE MINUTE-MEN, 1775
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Minuteman (Militia)--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twentieth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 21 - The Raising of the Flag at the Reception to Lafayette
description- – Young boys surrounding the man raising the flag in preparation for the arrival of Marquis de la Lafayette, the French General who served in the American Revolutionary War, during Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The boys are pointing upwards at the flag. Behind them, men are staking in the arch of welcome to Lafayette. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912.EPISODE V THE RECEPTION TO LAFAYETTESYNOPSIS The scene opens with the preparations for the reception to the distinguished visitor. The town constable, followed by the boys of the village, enters the common and raises the flag, not without difficulty. Meanwhile a group of young men enter, bearing an arch of welcome, which they set up. And the girls of Lancaster flock in with garlands or flowers for its adornment.The village schoolmaster directs the activities of the young people. He attempts to train the boys in the art of polite salutation, as does also a young schoolmistress with a group of girls in her charge.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-first photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 22 - Young boys playing in front of the arch of welcome for Lafayette
description- – Young boys playing in front of the arch of welcome for Marquis de la Lafayette, the French General who served in the American Revolutionary War, during Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. A group of women and girls string the garlands on the welcome sign. The man in the top hot and white suit is the Lancaster schoolmaster. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts July 4, 1912.A punch is prepared for the festive occasion, and then the town clerk and his wife and daughter drive across the green and dismount, and he takes complete charge of everything. His old horse is unharnessed from chaise, and a hostler cleans and saddles the animal, while the constable has a hard time trying to drag the chaise off the scene, the boys being mischievous.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-second photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 23 - Lafayette's coach arrives
description- – The arrival of Marquis de la Lafayette, the French General who served in the American Revolutionary War, coach during Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The arrival was early in the day, a little after six o'clock. The town folk gather around to watch Lafayette's arrival. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 RECEPTION TO LAFAYETTE, 1824IN 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. He arrived at New York August 15, accompanied by his son George and his secretary M. Levasseur. During the following thirteen months he was received in nearly every town in the United States."The whole of this long journey,"says Bayard Tuckerman,"was a triumphal progress. Cities and towns vied with each other in the length of their processions, the brilliancy of their balls and public dinners; through the rural districts the population lined the road along which the general passed under arches surmounted with 'Welcome Lafayette!"At every stopping-place an orator expressed the feelings of his neighbours in language heartfelt, if florid, every surviving Revolutionary soldier became the great man of his community. The festivities and celebrations of that year had no precedent in the annals of the country."Lafayette's welcome at Lancaster was a typical incident of this"triumphal progress."September 2, 1824, he set out with his party from Boston, spending the night in Bolton at the mansion of S.V.S. Wilder, with whom he had become acquainted during Mr. Wilder's long career as a merchant in France. The Bolton Rifle Company,"in their new green uniform,"maintained a guard of honor through the night about the house, and the next morning escorted the illustrious quest, accompanied by Mr. Wilder, to Lancaster. On the way they were joined by other military companies. The incidents of Lafayette's reception took place on the village green, as here shown.The ladies of Lancaster with their husbands and veterans of the war now enter, and a townsman enters on horseback with the news that the coach, with outriders, is already in the village street, and the final preparations are hastily made, and the chairman helped up into his saddle. The coach arrives, followed by the Bolton Rifles. Lafayette dismounts with Mr. and Mrs. Wilder and his son, George Washington Lafayette. Many of the townsfolk are introduced, and Lafayette shows special pleasure at meeting veterans of the revolution.'At the early hour of half-past six, Lafayette, escorted by a company of cavalry proceeded to the Lancaster line. The turnpike gate was covered with flowers and evergreen, and bore a legend,"The Free welcome the Brave."here a salute was fired by the artillery. Nearly opposite the meeting-house an arch had been erected and elaborately decorated. The verse was composed by Caroline Lee Whiting, later well known as an author under her married name of Caroline Lee Hentz.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 24 - Reading the thank you and welcome address to Lafayette
description- – Reading the address of welcome and thank you to Marquis de la Lafayette, the French General who served in the American Revolutionary War, during Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. After Lafayette was received on the church steps, Lafayette and Rev. Dr. Thayer walk through the Arch of Welcome. The welcome address, as seen in the photograph, is then read by Rev. Dr. Thayer in the center of the common. Lafayette, played by Thomas F. Temple, is in the white hat, and his son, George Washington Lafayette, played by Harmar Morse, is in the light colored suit. Behind the welcome arch are the Bolton Rifles seated on their horses. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning.The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 Escorted by the chairman of the selectmen and the others, the guests walk under the arch of welcome, and are received at the church steps by the Rev. Dr. Thayer, who walks with Lafayette to the centre of the common, and there reads his address.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 25 - Minuet dance from afar
description- – Seen from above, the Minuet dance in the town common during the festivities welcoming Marquis de la Lafayette, the French General who served in the American Revolutionary War, during the Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. Notice the photographer on the ladder in the foreground. During the pageant, photographers were stationed all over the town common to document the festivities. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Minuet (Dance)--Pictorial works
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-fifth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 26 - Close up of the Minuet dance
description- – The minuet dance performed during Episode V, The Reception of Lafayette, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The dancers were Sarah Treadway&Harmar Morse, Natalie Thayer&Lester Griswold, Mrs Harmar Morse&Lyman B. Sanborn, Jr., Mabel Safford&Henry H. Fuller, George F. Morse, Jr.&Nora Thayer, Henry B. Sampson&Helen Hawkins, Agnes Thayer&Edward Safford, and Guy Hawkins&Edith Parker. In 1824 General Lafayette was invited by President Monroe to revisit the United States as the guest of the nation. For thirteen months he visited nearly every town in the United States. He arrived at Lancaster on September 2, 1824 at half past six in the morning. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts
- – Minuet (Dance)--Pictorial works
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-sixth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 27 - The Minuet dancers
description- – The dancers who danced the Minuet in the final episode, the Reception to Lafayette, of the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July pageant. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 THOSE WHO DANE THE MINUET AT THE RECEPTION TO LAFAYETTEMrs. Harmar Morse Mr. Harmar Morse Miss Mabel W. Safford Mr. Henry B. SampsonMiss Agnes Thayer Mr. George F. Morse, Jr. Miss Helen M. Hawkins Mr. Lester R. GriswoldMiss Nora F. Thayer Mr. Henry H. Fuller Miss Edith Parker Mr. Lyman B. Sanborn, Jr.Miss Natalie Thayer Mr. Guy C. Hawkins Miss Sarah C. Treadway Mr. Edward F. Safford
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Dancers--Pictorial works
- – Historical drama
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-seventh photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 28 - The Pageant Actors
description- – A photograph of the actors who participated in the final episode, the Reception to Lafayette, of the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July pageant. Known participants are: Standing - Miss Virginia Keyes, Miss Mary Morse, Mrs. H.H. Fuller, Miss Annie Harris, Mrs. E.V.R. Thayer, Eben C. Mann, Dr. C.C. Beckley, Lester Griswold, John Hair, Sarah Treadway, Guy Hawkins, Lyman B. Sanborn Jr., Natalie Thayer, Rev. Abbot Peterson, Edith Parker, Mabel Safford, Katherine Parker, Helen Hawkins, Mrs. Walter Stiles, Mrs. Eben Fuller, Mrs. Lester Griswold, Dorothy Erskine, Miss Esther Morse, Edith Montgomery, Amanda Fortin, Ruth McLaughlin, Dorothy Sanborn, Bessie McGee, Bessie McLaughlin, Katharine Starbuck, Helen McGee, Conway Parker, Josphine Morse, Mrs. S.H. Erskine, Miss Louise Chickering, Mrs. H.H. Hosmer, Allan G. Buttrick; Sitting - Sally Bascom, Anna Fuller, Hazel Turner, Gertrude Temple, John Malone, Harriet Parker, John McLaughlin, William Monahan, Richard Mahan, Elizabeth Gordon, Charles Starbuck Jr. George McGee, Madeline McGee, Stewart Carr, Haven Parker, Frank McLaughlin, Harry Fuller, Charles McLaughlin, richard Farnsworth, James McLeod, Clara Francis, Mary Flannagan. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Historical drama
- – Actors--Pictorial works
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-eighth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 29 - The Audience at the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July pageant
description- – A photograph of the audience at the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July pageant. The Pageant was divided into five historical episodes, including the Early English Fete, 1575-1625; the Settlement of Lancaster, 1650; the Massacre by the Indians, 1676; the Departure of the Minutemen, 1775; and the Reception to Lafayette, 1824. The director of the pageant was Joseph Lindon Smith. About 400 amateur performers participated. It is estimated that 4000 people attended the pageant with about 1200 people seated in the bleachers alone. The day of the pageant began at 3:30 in the morning with a group called"the daybreak patrol"that drove around Lancaster and played musical instruments and turned on water hoses to wake people up. The play started at 10 am and lasted for two and a half hours. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Historical drama
- – Spectators--Pictorial works
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the twenty-ninth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel - Directions
description- – Directions for the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The exhibition contains 29 photographs with descriptions and history of the five historical episodes performed during the Lancaster 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The five scenes performed in the pageant were the Early English Fete, 1575-1625; the Settlement of Lancaster, 1650; the Massacre by the Indians, 1676; the Departure of the Minute-Men, 1775; and the Reception to Lafayette, 1824. The date of the Pageant listed on the directions is incorrect - the actual date was July 4, 1912.
- – DIRECTIONS. Hang the pictures in order according to their numbers, using two hooks for each picture. In repacking put in in the same order, No. 29 at the bottom and No. 1 on top, face to face, with the brown papers between. Place these directions over No. 1, and the heavy pasteboard over all. Pageant at Lancaster, Mass., July 4, 1913.[Stamp: Woman's Education Association Boston]
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama
- – Historical drama
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-1930?
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is of the directions that were sent with The Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 Exhibit created by the Thayer Memorial Library
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 01 - May Pole and Morris dancers
description- – May Pole and Morris dancers performing in Episode I, Early English Fete, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. In the far back to the right, Robin Hood and his Merry Band can be seen taking part in the merriment. Set in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, though, the activities performed on May Day were frowned upon, and the puritans, seen walking on the edge to the right, can be seen showing their displeasure by glaring at the performers.The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 Episode I. The Prologue: Early English Fete.In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries there was a distinct set of sports known as the May-games. It was customary for citizens of all estates to go out into the woods after midnight preceding the May-day to cut down the May-pole, adorn it with branches and flowers, and bring it into the village, where they danced around it and performed other pastimes all day long. Bishop Latimer wrote:"Coming to a certain town on a holiday to preach, I found the church door fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more, and at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says,"Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's Day.' I was fain, therefore to give place to Robin hood."In the May-games Robin Hood presided as Lord of the May and Maid Marian as Lady of the May. His companions were those famous in his ballads, who always accompanied him on his adventures. There were tests of archery and morris-dances. In the morris-dance, which was considered an essential feature of May-day, the hobby-horse or a dragon made a part of the dance with Robin Hood and his companions. - Abridged from"Folk Festivals,"by Mary Master Needham.
- – Folklore
- – Historical drama
- – Maypoles--Folk dancing
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1575-1625--Drama
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – May Day
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the first photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 02 - May Pole Dance
description- – The May pole dance performed during Episode I, Early English Fete, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The May Pole dancers, with flowers in their hair, dance around the pole holding the ribbons. The May Pole dancers were all girls from the Lancaster Industrial School for Girls in Lancaster. Meanwhile, the men in white caps and the woman all in white were Morris Dancers who also performed during the Episode. The identified Morris Dancers were Helen E. Brown, Lyman B. Sanborn, Jr., Edna Hardy, John Mahan, Ruth [Pilling], Walter J. Burke, A. Daniel Heald (blank, Marion C. Brown, Ethel Schumacher, Beatrice Tedford, Beatrice Lewis, Blank, Dorothy Erskine, Helen Rowell.The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 Early English Fete, 1575-1625Synopsis Villagers enter the scene, ready for the sports and pastimes of the May-games; they visit the booths and are presently joined by a group of girls dressed alike; these are the May-pole dancers.Then come in the morris-dancers, followed later by a group of milkmaids. The Lord and Lady of the May, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, and their group, consisting of Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlett, and the others, now come into the scene, and all are ready for the games to begin. As a foil to the merriment and holiday spirit, a group of Puritans stalk solemnly across the field, looking with reproving eyes at all they see.A knight and his lady, with a small following, enter from the left and receive salutations from the company. The dances begin, when the knight seats his lady.In the middle the May-pole dancers, on the right the morris and on the left the milkmaid group. During the dances the villagers engage in various sports: throwing of quoits, wrestling, single-stick, running races, and other games, and at the same time Robin Hood and his merry men show their skill in archery.
- – Folklore
- – Historical drama
- – Maypoles--Folk dancing
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1575-1625--Drama
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – May Day
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the second photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 03 - Entrance of the Colonists
description- – Colonists arriving to settle Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. Lancaster was settled sometime around 1653. In the picture, the colonist walk in a long, strung out line, carrying their belongings in baskets. The identified participants were Gertrude Blood, Amreau Blood, Bessie McLaughlin, Mary Flannagan, Ruth McLaughlin, Katherine Powers, Emma Avery, Madeline Brydon, Robert McRell, Jessie Hair, Bessie Munn, Hattie McGee, Mary Burke, Marie King, Anna Coughlin, Frank McLaughlin, Mrs. Foster Sawer, Mrs. Lester Griswold, Donald Griswold, Rev. Abbot Peterson. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 EPISODE II. SETTLEMENTThis scene is in part typical of the beginnings of any of the inland towns of New England founded in the seventeenth century, but it also includes incidents which belong especially to Lancaster. We are to suppose that it takes place some time between 1643, when an Indian trading-post was established here, and 1653, when Lancaster received township rights by grant of the General Court. We know, from allusions in a later deed, of the purchase by Lancaster Proprietors of eighty square miles of land, for twelve pounds, from the friendly chief, Sholan. No copy of the deed is known to exist; but there is a tradition in the Houghton family, which may have reference to this transaction, that for certain lands bought of the Indians two black bulls and a gallon of rum formed a part of the purchase price, - a picturesque detail which has been utilized.John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, frequently visited Lancaster, or"Nashaway,"as it was called in these earlier years. In 1648 he writes:"Showanon[Sholan] the great Sachem of Nashaway doth embrace the Gospel&pray unto God, I have been four times there this summer,"and, two years later laments that, owing to his absence, some of the Nashaway Indians have been emboldened by Satan to return to their superstitious rites. The hymns here introduced are versions of the 126th and a part of the 24th Psalm from the"Bay Psalm Book."printed at Cambridge in 1640. Appropriate contemporary tunes have been selected. The quaint names assigned to the minor characters in this scene are not fanciful, as might be supposed, but are drawn from the vital records of the town. Some, however, below to a later date than of this episode.
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Historical drama
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the third photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 04 - Preparing the mid-day meal
description- – Colonists preparing a meal after arriving in Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The photograph shows the colonists finishing work on the stockade and block-house while women prepare food for a mid-day meal. The stockade and block-house were actually set up in-between the first and second episode and then taken down before the final Episode of the pageant. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912 SETTLEMENT OF LANCASTER, 1650The Colonists enter the scene, followed by their wives and families. They set to work to finish the stockade and block-house. The women, meanwhile, prepare food for the mid-day meal.
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 05 - Group of Colonists after noonday meal
description- – The colonists of Lancaster finish off their noonday meal in Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. By this point in the episode, the local Native American tribe, the Nashaway tribe, has arrived. They can be seen standing in the background. A tee-pee can be seen to the left. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph.
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Native Americans
- – Indians of North America--Nashaway
- – Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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Pageant Exhibition Panel 06 - The Nashaway encampment
description- – The Nashaway Indian Tribe encampment during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. One tribe member makes a fire, while the rest watch. A Tee-pee is in the background. A colonist with a gun walks past the Nashaway chiefs who are about to meet with the colonists. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. Settlement.Friendly Indians enter, showing great interest and curiosity in all they see going on. The food and the guns particularly interest them. The younger Indians begin a dance, -around their camp-fire; and, as it becomes more and more savage, John Eliot advances from the woods at the right, and reproves the red men for such riotous behavior.The Indians form a group with the settlers, and a second Psalm is sung.
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Native Americans
- – Indians of North America--Nashaway
- – Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
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- – Image is the sixth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
- – English
Pageant Exhibition Panel 07 - Chief Sholan and the passing of the deed
description- – Chief Sholan, or Nashacowam, and Sagamore Sam of the Nashaway Indian Tribe passing the deed to the land that makes up Lancaster to the Colonists during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The purchase of the eighty square miles that made up Lancaster took place sometime between 1643 and 1653. Local tradition says that part of the purchase price was a gallon of rum and two black bulls. Chief Sholan, played by William J. McLeod, is shown standing over a table made from a split log with Sagamore Sam, played by Emory Little. Ralph Houghton the Clerk of Writs, played by Edward L. Brockelmann, John Prescott, played by Rev. Abbott Peterson and Hooker Osgood, played by Arthur G. Chickering represent the Colonists. The rest of the Colonists gather in a semi-circle around the proceedings. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. Settlement. The magistrate of the settlement, the chief man of the town, and the Hymn-singer arrive, and gather all the whites together and lead in the singing of a hymn from the"Bay Psalm Book."After this the Indians advance with tenders of friendship, and the magistrate submits a document for the signature of the Indian chiefs. In return he gives money, two bullocks, and a jog of rum. Dinner is then served, and drink (sack) is passed around.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Nashacowam
- – Indians of North America--Nashaway
- – Deeds
- – Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Sholan
- – Native Americans
- – Land titles--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Prescott, James
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Nashoonan
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
- – image/jpg
- – Image is the seventh photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
- – English
Pageant Exhibition Panel 08 - Third Chief and the passing the deed
description- – The Third Chief of the Nashaway Indian Tribe looking at the deed to the land that makes up Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The purchase of the eighty square miles that made up Lancaster took place sometime between 1643 and 1653. Local tradition says that part of the purchase price was a gallon of rum and two black bulls. The Third Chief, played by Alfred Montgomery, stands with his arms crossed as the Clerk of Writs, Ralph Houghton, played by Edward L. Brockelmann, holds up the deed to the land of Lancaster. John Prescott, played by Rev. Abbott Peterson, and Hooker Osgood, played by Arthur G. Chickering, stand alongside.The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. Settlement. Purchase of Land.
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Native Americans
- – Indians of North America--Nashaway
- – Land titles--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Prescott, James
- – Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Deeds
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
- – image/jpg
- – Image is the eighth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
- – English
Pageant Exhibition Panel 09 - The Purchase of Land
description- – Chief Sholan, or Nashacowam, of the Nashaway Indians leaning over to look at the deed to the land that makes up Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The purchase of the eighty square miles that made up Lancaster took place sometime between 1643 and 1653. Local tradition says that part of the purchase price was a gallon of rum and two black bulls. Chief Sholan, played by William McLeod, is shown leaning over a table made from a split log while Ralph Houghton the Clerk of Writs, played by Edward L. Brockelmann, John Prescott, played by Rev. Abbott Peterson explain the deed to the land. The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.
- – Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. Settlement. Purchase of Land.
- – Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama
- – Nashacowam
- – Indians of North America--Nashaway
- – Deeds
- – Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- – Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Sholan
- – Native Americans
- – Land titles--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Prescott, James
- – Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – Nashoonan
- – Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster
- – 1912-07-04
- – Thayer Memorial Library
- – From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org
- – image/jpg
- – Image is the ninth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.
- – English
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