"Pageant of Cape Cod" photographic collection, 1914

Description

10 black and white photographic prints taken by photographer Fred C. Small of Buzzards Bay, Mass. They depict rehearsals for the "Pageant of Cape Cod", which was put on in celebration of the opening of the Cape Cod Canal in August 1914. The pageant was described as "a magnificent out-door presentation of the drama that lies in the history and life of this community from the time of the landing of Bartholomew Gosnold and the naming of the Cape in 1602." The images in this collection depict various scenes from the pageant, including people dressed in stereotypical "Pilgrim" and "Colonial American" costumes, military reenactments, allegorical dances, and more.

Images in the collection include the following:
1. [Dancers rehearsing for the Pageant with onlookers, 1914], color image of cottage on reverse, no number.
2. First railroad bridge over canal, 1914, no number.
3. [Pageant conclusion, America on a horse}, The Pageant 1914, Opening of canal, no. 500.
4. [Actors in colonial dress, woman with cow], Practicing for the Pageant, 1914, no. 532.
5. [Actors in colonial military dress], The Pageant 1914, Ship Conrad in background, no. 656.
6. [Actors in colonial military dress], The Pageant 1914, no. 659A.
7. Some of the actors at rehersal of the Pageant of Cape Cod, 1914, no. 662.
8. [Actors in colonial dress rehearsing], The Pageant, Celebrating the opening of the Cape Cod canal 1914, no. 663.
9. [Actors in 17th century military dress, man with fish], Part of the Pageant, Cape Cod Canal opening 1914, no. 703.
10. [Actors in colonial dress, several on horses], Pageant, Opening of canal, 1914, no. 710.