Album of Pageant of Virginia photographs, 1922.

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Album of Pageant of Virginia photographs, 1922.

The majority of the photographs are of the "Pageant of Virginia," a parade in Richmond, Va., produced by Thomas Wood Stevens. The parade/pageant features horse drawn floats depicting various scenes in the history of Virginia cities and counties and ends with a ceremony on the steps of St. Peter's Catholic Church and a Ring Tournament of costumed jousters. At the end of the volume are several photographs of a woman named Hattie.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8017597

University of Virginia. Library

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Stevens, Thomas Wood, 1880-1942

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Thomas Wood Stevens was an artist, teacher, author, and theater director. He served has head of the Illustration Department at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903-1911; he was cofounder of Blue Sky Press, 1899-1907; he served as head of the Drama Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1913-1925; then at the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, 1925- 1930; he was the director of various university and community theaters, and of the Globe Theatre Shakespearean productions perfo...