{"id":1347,"date":"2011-09-20T22:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2013-12-11T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T15:49:49","slug":"a-snapshot-of-life-on-the-chautauqua-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/09\/20\/a-snapshot-of-life-on-the-chautauqua-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"A snapshot of life on the Chautauqua circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Chautauqua<\/a>
Chautauqua tent, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1910s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One of our first digital collections, Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century<\/a>\u00a0is also one of our largest, and it gets bigger all the time. In addition to digitized brochures, programs, and audio recordings, the collection now contains almost 800 photographs depicting life on the road for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau’s performers, agents,\u00a0and crew members as they imported culture to the Midwest — one big tent at a time.<\/p>\n

View the Chautauqua Photographs\u00a0digital subcollection<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Crowd<\/a>
Crowd watching storyteller, 1910s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lecturing<\/a>
Lecturing on numbers, 1920s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Gambling<\/a>
Gambling for Redpath pay, 1911<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Boarding<\/a>
Boarding a train, 1920s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sold<\/a>
Sold out sandwich board, 1910s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of our first digital collections, Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century\u00a0is also one of our largest, and it gets bigger all the time. In addition to digitized brochures, programs, and audio recordings, the collection now contains almost 800 photographs depicting life on the road for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau’s performers, agents,\u00a0and crewContinue reading “A snapshot of life on the Chautauqua circuit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}