titania

"Titania" -- Overbrook [dancing] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 3 older comments, and then…
• bior said:

  Titania is a character in Midsummer Night's Dream.

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  From a performance or pageant at Overbrook School for the Blind--presumably Titania is one of the Overbrook students.

• Art Siegel said:

  Here is another photo from the Midsummer Night's Dream production from The Commons, with "Titania" at center:
  
  A June 6, 1914 magazine used the Bain photo with this caption:
  A BLIND TITANIA QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES
  A Midsummer Night's Dream was given this year in the dramatic work of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind at Overbrook. The institution's report holds that the drama not only makes the institution known but clears up the old impression that it is a "blind asylum", while in realiity it is "a boarding school for boys and girls who happen to be blind." Most important of all it gives self confidence to blind pupils, helps them to get around, and oflen completely transforms those who are slow to hear and to observe.
  books.google.com/books?id=mI4qAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PR14&o...
  Another 1914 account, with yet another photo:
  books.google.com/books?id=FQUCAAAAYAAJ&dq=overbrook%2...

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks to all of you for this great research. We'll add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

• Paul Jackson said:

  Thanks for adding these lovely images to the Dancing Outside group