May Day snapshot

May 18, 1939

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May Day snapshot
  • Title
  • May Day snapshot
  • Date
  • May 18, 1939
  • Identifier
  • PCW000385
  • Description
  • Two May Day participants pose in their costumes. The 1939 "May Day Revels and Play," set in Sevenoaks Village in 1572, was described in the program as follows: "On the first of May the villagers, having chosen their Queen, go into the woods to gather boughs and flowers. Then with merry shouts and blowing of horns they return--singing "Summer is a-coming in"--and dance on the green. Queen Elizabeth, making a royal progress through her realm, arrives with her courtiers and attendants at Sevenoaks village and watches the May revels of the country folk. The May Queen, representing Maid Marian and attended by the village youth who has been chosen to be Robin Hood, rides to the common with her maids, the merry men of the greenwood, and the girls who deck her way with flowers. She is crowned by Robin Hood. In her honor and in honor of Queen Elizabeth, many country dances are performed and the play of St. George and the Dragon, symbolic of the death of Winter and the coming of Spring, is presented. Hobby horses, stilt walkers, tumblers, jesters engage in merry pastimes on the green."
  • Place of Publication
  • College Campus
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Women college students--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Pennsylvania College for Women
    May Day--United States
    Pageants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
    Costume
  • Geographic Subjects
  • College Campus
  • Source
  • Chatham University May Day Collection
  • Contributor
  • Chatham University
  • Collection
  • Chatham University May Day Collection
  • Rights Information
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