Santo Domingo Buck in Corn Dance Costume (1908). Fred Harvey "Phostint" Postcard 12958 from Detroit Publishing Co.
"About 300 men, women and children take part in the Corn Dance. All of the men dancers are dressed in this costume, which is worn only on this occasion. The dance comprises numerous and complicated movements, and is very interesting and spectacular. Santo Domingo is the second largest of the Rio Grande pueblos, and has a population of about 1,000." [Text on the back of the postcard]
Fred Harvey (1835 – 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers. He is credited with creating the first restaurant chain in the United States. He was also a leader in promoting tourism in the American Southwest in the late 19th century. Fred Harvey and his employees successfully brought new higher standards of both civility and dining to a region widely regarded in the era as "the Wild West." He created a legacy which was continued by his sons and remained in the family until the death of a grandson in 1965.
Fred Harvey was also a postcard publisher, touted as "the best way to promote your Hotel or Restaurant." Most postcards were published in co-operation with the Detroit Publishing Company. Their Arizona "Phostint" postcards are collected worldwide.
A movie musical entitled “The Harvey Girls,” starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, was made in 1946. It won the Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." In the 1995 steampunk alternate history novel “The Two Georges” by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove, Harvey is mentioned in the first chapter as having been in the business of airships in addition to railroads.
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Santo Domingo Buck in Corn Dance Costume (1908). Fred Harvey "Phostint" Postcard 12958 from Detroit Publishing Co.
"About 300 men, women and children take part in the Corn Dance. All of the men dancers are dressed in this costume, which is worn only on this occasion. The dance comprises numerous and complicated movements, and is very interesting and spectacular. Santo Domingo is the second largest of the Rio Grande pueblos, and has a population of about 1,000." [Text on the back of the postcard]
Fred Harvey (1835 – 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers. He is credited with creating the first restaurant chain in the United States. He was also a leader in promoting tourism in the American Southwest in the late 19th century. Fred Harvey and his employees successfully brought new higher standards of both civility and dining to a region widely regarded in the era as "the Wild West." He created a legacy which was continued by his sons and remained in the family until the death of a grandson in 1965.
Fred Harvey was also a postcard publisher, touted as "the best way to promote your Hotel or Restaurant." Most postcards were published in co-operation with the Detroit Publishing Company. Their Arizona "Phostint" postcards are collected worldwide.
A movie musical entitled “The Harvey Girls,” starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, was made in 1946. It won the Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." In the 1995 steampunk alternate history novel “The Two Georges” by Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove, Harvey is mentioned in the first chapter as having been in the business of airships in addition to railroads.
[Source: Wikipedia]