Hard Time Party, Harrisburg City Hall, 1908

Photograph

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Springfield History Museum

Name/Title

Hard Time Party, Harrisburg City Hall, 1908

Entry/Object ID

1993.054.002

Description

Harrisburg hardtimes party, City Hall, October 23, 1908. Several men and women posing in costumes. Double doors in background, a pipe for a stove, with wood flooring in foreground. Hard Times Dances achieved peak popularity between the Panic of 1893 and the Stock Market Crash of 1929. They gave evidence of an emerging urban middle class with time and money to spare. Inspired by Civil War-era Calico Balls that raised money for soldiers and wartime widows, a Hard Times Dance is part fun and part fundraiser. In lieu of expensive silks and satins, women wore dresses made of cheap cotton calico, the idea being that the money saved could instead be donated to exemplify ideals such as kindness and wartime austerity. Scanned image, 300 ppi, Tif format, on disk 24

Photograph Details

Subject Place

City

Harrisburg

County

Linn County

State/Province

Oregon

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Collection

Mountjoy Photo Collection

Acquisition

Accession

1993.054

Source or Donor

Mountjoy, Smith and Wanda

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Smith Mountjoy

Date made

1908

Dimensions

Width

9 in

Length

7 in

Web Links and URLs

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Copyright

Type of License

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Copyright Details

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