Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title [225th aniversary of Germantown parade, Germantown, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1908
Date October 6, 1908
Physical Description 1 photograph: film negative; 7 x 12 cm (2.75 x 4.75 in).
Description Film negative showing a group of men dressed as Revolutionary-era soldiers marching down Germantown Avenue in the parade for the 225th anniversary of the founding of Germantown. The men carry rifles over their shoulders. Spectators line both sides of the road. Patriotic bunting hangs from a building in the background. The original Bicentennial anniversary parade celebrated the first German immigrants to America and the first thirteen Quaker families who founded Germantown. A smaller annual holiday, German Day, began to be held in subsequent years in German-American communities.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note on original envelope: 10-6-1908. Historical parade, being 225th aniv of Germantown Friends Meeting. On Germantown Ave.
Gift of David M. Morris.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Costumes.
Fashion.
Parades & processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spectators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Film negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2017.38.7]
Accession number P.2017.38.7