Patrons Day May Pole Dance Real Photo Post Card, 1915 tin with horse but happily very little loss

but happily very little loss to their faces

Rabbit alone measures 12 5/8" tall

The bristles are full and tightly bound

These sorts of nut carvings

Patrons Day May Pole Dance Real Photo Post Card, 1915 tin with horse but happily very little lossI vaguely remember one attempt at a Maypole in my early school days (in the 1970s) but I think it bore very very little resemblance to the completely charming one captured here! I think the details in this photograph from 1915 are just wonderful from the darling dresses, shorts, shoes and hair bows of the participating children, to the be hatted spectators to the right and one assumes teachers to the left keeping a close eye on things, and then more