May Day Celebration

Basic details

May Day Celebration is an image, with genre photograph.

Its dimensions are 3.10 in. x 4.56 in..

It was created sometime in 1940.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

A May Day celebration at the Worthington High School athletics field is pictured here. May Day customs including dancing around a decorated pole known as the Maypole are rooted in the Roman festival of Flora the goddess of spring and Floralia the festival of flowers.

The Worthington High School athletic field was created and federally funded in 1935 as a project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration, a.k.a. Works Projects Administration), under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Worthington resident, L. P. Patin was the chief engineer of the WPA in Worthington's district. The new athletic field included a football field, quarter mile cinder track, regulation sized baseball diamond and tennis courts.

Subjects

It features the organization Thomas Worthington High School.

It covers the topic dance.

It covers the city Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0928.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 88-G-79.56.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on January 11, 2006. It was last updated November 11, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

May Day Celebration from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of May Day Celebration. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.