{"id":1950,"date":"2021-09-27T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T15:21:22","slug":"protestors-panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/protestors-panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Protestors in St. Louis, 1920-30"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are photos of protests\u00a0 in St. Louis for racial equality (1930) and voting rights for women (1920) from\u00a0a spectacular exhibition of panoramas at the Missouri History Museum.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, the roughly 5-by-30 foot photos are enlargments of the originals which are only about 8 by 50 inches<\/em>\u00a0and were also on display – yet they’re sharp enough that you can see individual hairs and the texture of the clothing fabrics. I believe they don’t make cameras any more that can obtain such high resolution except for the most sophisticated professional equipment used in science, the military or aerial photos on Google Maps.<\/p>\n

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Original panoramas approx. 8 x 50 inches<\/h4>\n

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Protest by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1930<\/h4>\n

Panaroma at top; enlargement of the same photo below (my father on the right)<\/p>\n

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\nCloseups<\/p>\n

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Women’s voting rights protest, 1920<\/h4>\n

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Closeups<\/p>\n

I feel like all those famous pictures of sufragettes marching show mostly women and you forget\u00a0there were also men and boys of all ages protesting alongside, or at least there were in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

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Some of the other panoramas which weren’t about protests<\/p>\n

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Pageant at Art Hill in 1914 with an audience of 100,000<\/h4>\n

The theme was something like the history of civilization; I forget exactly.<\/p>\n

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\nSegment of the pageant representing Native Americans or perhaps some other “primitive” group<\/p>\n

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These are photos of protests\u00a0 in St. Louis for racial equality (1930) and voting rights for women (1920) from\u00a0a spectacular exhibition of panoramas at the Missouri History Museum. Incredibly, the roughly 5-by-30 foot photos are enlargments of the originals which are only about 8 by 50 inches\u00a0and were also on display – yet they’re sharp … <\/p>\n

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