midsummerdayfestival

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Krakoviak Dance, Bronx Park, 1911 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Art Siegel said:
    From Krakow, it seems. Want to do your own Krakoviak dance? Instructions here: www.yiddishdance.com/Krakoviak.pdf
  • Wojtek Felendzer said:
    In Polish, the spelling would be "krakowiak". The word also means "a male resident of Kraków". And, as if there were not enough confusion, a female resident of Kraków would be "krakowianka".
  • Sam ♑ said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakowiak
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos taken during the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, on June 23, 1911, in Bronx Park [corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park]: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163516194/#] New York Times story, June 24, 1911 [scrolling required]: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...
  • Paul Jackson said:
    Thanks very much for adding this to the Dancing Outside group

Pass ball relay, Pelham Bay Park (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos taken during the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, in Bronx Park [Corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park] -- June 23, 1911: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163516194/#] Story in The New York Times, June 24, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...

Rings and poles, Bronx Park (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • savannahnole said:
    Can you imagine this being in a playground today?
  • Julie Lyn said:
    Yeah, that's not dangerous at all.
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos taken at the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, on June, 23, 1911, in Bronx Park [corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park]: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163516194/#] Story in The New York Times, June 24, 1911 [scrolling required]: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...

Carrying out a girl who fainted, pass ball relay (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos taken during the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, on June 23, 1911, in Bronx Park [corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park]: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163516194/#] Story in New York Times, June 24, 1911 [scrolling required]: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...