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- "Follies of 1909" - <body>A typical <i>Follies</i> revue featured a variety of performances from comedy sketches to dancing chorus girls similar to the famed Parisian Folies-Bergère cabaret. Each year producer Florenz Ziegfeld updated the show’s roster of performers. Ziegfeld produced the show annually from 1907 until 1931, and many of its stars became household names. </body>
- August 09, 1909
- Collections - Artifact
"Follies of 1909"
A typical Follies revue featured a variety of performances from comedy sketches to dancing chorus girls similar to the famed Parisian Folies-Bergère cabaret. Each year producer Florenz Ziegfeld updated the show’s roster of performers. Ziegfeld produced the show annually from 1907 until 1931, and many of its stars became household names. - "The Gibson Bathing Girl," 1907 - Charles Dana Gibson's illustrations of beautiful, independent young women reflected and helped define a new ideal of American femininity in the 1890s and early 1900s. These popular images, known collectively as "the Gibson Girl," became a cultural phenomenon referenced in fashion and entertainment. A powerful marketing tool, the widely imitated Gibson Girl proliferated in advertisements and on product packaging.
- 1907
- Collections - Artifact
"The Gibson Bathing Girl," 1907
Charles Dana Gibson's illustrations of beautiful, independent young women reflected and helped define a new ideal of American femininity in the 1890s and early 1900s. These popular images, known collectively as "the Gibson Girl," became a cultural phenomenon referenced in fashion and entertainment. A powerful marketing tool, the widely imitated Gibson Girl proliferated in advertisements and on product packaging.