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Title	Showboat Majestic Photographs
Subject	Arts and Entertainment Education Universities and colleges Students Showboats Theaters
Place	Hiram (Ohio) Portage County (Ohio) Marietta (Ohio) Washington County (Ohio)
Description	Seven photographs document the performances of Hiram College students on board the showboat Majestic. They range in size between 4" x 8" (10.16 x 20.32 cm) and 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). TheMajestic was built by Captain Tom Reynolds and operated on the Ohio River and its tributaries from 1923 until 1965 as the last traveling showboat on American rivers. In 1948, Hiram College students and staff joined students and staff from Kent State University in a summer of traveling the river and entertaining the residents of nearby communities with plays, old-time Vaudeville skits, and calliope music. In 1949, Hiram faculty contracted individually with Captain Reynolds to continue the summer entertainment. During the next decade, with the exception of 1951, Hiram faculty and students brought a uniquely American form of entertainment to the residents of both large and small communities. Students signing up to take Speech 230, "Operating Theatre" learned the basics of performance as well as the backstage operations of advertising, ticket sales, contract negotiations, and public relations. Hiram's riverboat saga caught the eye of many major media organizations, including the Saturday Evening Post, Mademoiselle, and the New York Times. A popular young adult novelist of the 1950s, Rosamund Du Jardin, based her novel Showboat Summer on the Hiram river experience.
Date of Original	1948 - 1949
Collection	Hiram College and the Showboat Majestic Collection
Source	Audiovisual material 3/F/Theatre Institutional Records
Submitting Institution	Hiram College
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2081_2533371_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2081_2533371_001.tif
Image Height	3235
Image Width	3974
File Size	3665.49 KB

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