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21 photos and 3 illustrations tagged maypole, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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• maypoles
• maypoledancing
• children
• whitedresses
• girls
• libraryofcongress
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• dance
• mayday
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• york
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• newyorkcity
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• newyork
• centralpark
• manhattan
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• 1910s
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• The Library of Congress 8 photos & illustrations
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 3 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 3 photos & illustrations
• British Library 3 photos & illustrations
• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Virginia 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• Library Company of Philadelphia 1 photo / illustration

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Deaf school children - dancing (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• skillful north said:

  I wonder what state they are in here.

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Children doing maypole dancing in the Canungra Showgrounds

from State Library of Queensland

• mawarre said:

  Found this information about maypoles in Encyclopedia Britannica online edition. Ceremonial folk dance performed around a tall pole garlanded with greenery or flowers and often hung with ribbons that are woven into complex patterns by the dancers. Such dances are survivals of ancient dances around a living tree as part of spring rites to ensure fertility. Typically performed on May Day (May 1), they also occur at midsummer in Scandinavia and at other festivals elsewhere. They are widely distributed through Europe—e.g., “Sellenger's Round” in England, the baile del cordón of Spain—and also are found in India. Similar ribbon dances were performed in pre-Columbian Latin America and were later integrated into ritual dances of Hispanic origin. Maypoles may also appear in other ritual dances, as in the Basque ezpata dantza, or sword dance. "Maypole dance." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. Accessed 20 Mar. 2009

• Renira1 said:

  this is fabulous. my mother was 11 in 1934 and may well have been in this.

• State Library of Queensland said:

  Renira1 That is a marvellous find for you. We don't have any information about who the chldren are. Many of our pictures from that time period only have limited information.

May Pole - Central Park (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• velokitty said:

  I love the expressions in this