Pageant Exhibition Panel 26 - Close up of the Minuet dance

Pageant Exhibition Panel 26 - Close up of the Minuet dance

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834--Travel--United States--Massachusetts; Minuet (Dance)--Pictorial works; Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama; Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster

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.

Sears, Richard

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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1912-07-04

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From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org

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