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Description
Students in an Americanization class at the Woolston School, also called the Chestnut Street School, performing in a dramatization of immigration to America.
Gladys Moss and Nathan Golodetz are dressed as the Goddess of Liberty and Uncle Sam to greet the recently arrived.
A newspaper article noted, "The Junior Americanization Class of the day school will entertain the audience with a varied program of songs, recitations and a dramatization of Uncle Sam’s Problems, depicting some perplexing questions, and concluding with a discussion of many truths of vital interest to the thinking citizens of today."
The students pictured are John Malia, Bella Geller, Barney Moss, John Wong, Sadie Figato, Nathalie Westwig, William Wong, Martin Moss, Paul Malia, Robert Geller, Esther Woolf, Marie Costango, Max Matluck, Rita Siegel, Freda Malamed, Charles Chin, William Wong, Gabriel Tiefer, Danny Mardigan, Anna Vamvakias, and Nicholas Manteries.
About This Item
- Title: Americanization class, Portland, 1924
- Creation Date: 1924
- Subject Date: 1924
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.7688
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Americanization
- Children performing in theatrical productions--Maine--Portland
- Costumes
- Performances
- School children--Maine--Portland
- Schools--Maine--Portland
- Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) in art
- Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)
- United States--Emigration and immigration
People
- Chin, Charles
- Costango, Marie
- Figato, Sadie
- Geller, Bella
- Geller, Robert
- Golodetz, Nathaniel
- Malamed, Freda
- Malia, John
- Malia, Paul
- Manteries, Nicholas
- Mardigan, Danny
- Matluck, Max
- Moss, Barney
- Moss, Gladys
- Moss, Martin
- Siegel, Rita
- Tiefer, Gabriel
- Vamvakias, Anna
- Westwig, Nathalie
- Wong, John
- Wong, William
- Woolf, Esther
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