June 2011
Interested in Chatham history? If so, you’ll want to check out Chatham’s new Internet Archive page. This
collection contains publications from the University Archives, including the long-running alumni magazine,
campus literary magazines, select issues of the student newspaper, yearbooks, course catalogs, and a history of
the institution’s first ninety years.
This exciting project was made possible through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative—a Sloan
Foundation grant-subsidized program that has made digitization easy and affordable for libraries and cultural
institutions across the country. Chatham received additional support from the Archives Cummins Fund.
Through the Collaborative’s partnership with the Internet Archive, all items were scanned from cover-to-cover
and in full color. The archive can be viewed through a variety of formats—page through a book choosing the
“read online” option, download the PDF, or search the full text version.
If you have any questions about this project or the Archives in general, please contact the archivist, Rachel
Grove Rohrbaugh at 412-365-1212 or rrohrbaugh@chatham.edu.
The Jennie King Mellon Library and the Chatham University Archives are celebrating University Day 2012 with a first floor display of photographs and programs from one of our institution’s most elaborate spring festivals, May Day 1920, which also served as the college’s 50th anniversary pageant and a celebration of the end of World War I. Titled, Victory Through Conflict, the play drew thousands of spectators to the campus over the two day event. Performers included not only faculty and students but also alumnae, local music clubs, children, and
live animals.
The following is an excerpt of an account of the production published in The Pittsburg Press after the first performance on June 8th.
You can view additional images of the pageant and other May Day festivals on our Historic Pittsburgh Image
Collection.
“Historical Pageant Given By Students”
A pageant of stupendous proportions depicting in three parts, each with a number of episodes, the history of the world to its spiritual significance, from the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites, down to the close of the great war, was given by the Pennsylvania College for Women yesterday as the climax of its jubliee celebration.
The pageant, given with elaborate detail, and with scenes, songs and speeches of much beauty, closed with Love triumphant, advancing from the lifting clouds of the past, attended by Faith and Hope, and accompanied by Prophecy foretelling the time when liberty shall be proclaimed to the captives, when the waste places shall be rebuilt, and when violence shall no more be heard in the land. The pageant closed with CharlesWesley’s hymn of praise, “Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down,” in which the audience of thousands of persons occupying the seats which lined the slopes of the hillside in the natural amphitheater of the college grounds joined.
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