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Metadata
Title |
1922 program for The Washington Chautauqua held at Eastside Park |
Object Name |
Program |
Catalog Number |
2020.FIC.1025 |
People |
Allen, Arthur W. Allen, Benjamin (3) Burris, Charles Jacob Cochran, Charles E. Hastings, Paris Andrew McCarty, John W. McIver, I. S. Sargent, Leroy F. Thompson, Virgil Wells, Mildred E. |
Date |
1922 |
Scope & Content |
Original and two copies of the program for The Washington Chautauqua held August 13 to August 20, 1922 at the Eastside Park in Washington, Indiana. Different speakers and entertainers were presented during the eight day program. A "season ticket" for adults was $2.00. Children eight to fourteen were half price. At the top of the copy is written "Property of Mildred Wells year 1922." In the upper left is written "Thelma copy" and "#663." The number is a reference to the Thelma Bingham books at the Daviess County Museum. She wrote this was one item in a collection donated to the Museum by Thelma and Clifford Bingham. Chautauqua was an adult education and social movement that was popular in rural America in the late 19th and early 20th century. The first Chautauqua was organized in 1874 in upstate New York by a Methodist minister, Rev. John Heyl Vincent, to educate Sunday school teachers. |
Search Terms |
Eastside Park |