Research Guides: HIST 264/ ANTH 264: Materiality and Spectacle in 19th C. U.S. (HC): Parades, Pageants, Tableaux

Parades, Pageants, Tableaux: Supplemental Readings

Glassberg, David, “The New Pageantry,” in American Historical Pageantry : The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press), 1990

Bellion, Wendy, Citizen Spectator : Art, Illusion and Visual Perception in Early National America, (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press), 2011.

Major Image Collections for U.S. History

American Memory This link opens in a new window
Provides information on, and access to, digitized versions of primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
ARTstor
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A digital library that provides access to thousands of digital images derived from a variety of museum, library and archival collections. Images support a variety of disciplines including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design. Coverage varies.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) This link opens in a new window
The DPLA allows you to search millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the library or other content provider's website.

Flickr: The Commons
Images from many of the world's public photo archives, described by Flickr users so that some are very richly described.
Smithsonian Collections Search
Search over 8.59 million catalog records of museum objects, and library & archives materials. More than 963,000 of these records contain online images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other online resources.

Collections, Links & Images

Fourth of July Postcards
This collection of early 20th century postcards presents celebrations and symbols for the national holiday.
100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade
Photographs from the 1913 suffrage parade capture the symbols, the wide participation, and the logistics of involving large groups.
Studying Community Festivals
Anthropologist Audrey Shalinsky here outlines a series of issues and questions to consider when studying parades and festivals.
Tableaux Vivants
This introductory webpage from the University of Chicago's Theories of Media site includes a brief bibliography.