Details
Creator Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer.
Contributor Baker & Dallett, architect.
Title [Peace Jubilee, grand viewing stands in front of the Mercantile Club, 1422-26 North Broad Street.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1898
Date October 1898
Physical Description 1 slide: lantern; 8 x 11 cm.(3 x 4 in.)
Description Depicts people sitting and standing underneath of the wooden viewing stands erected along Broad Street for the Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the end of the Spanish American War held in 1898. Included a military parade that passed through a Court of Honor and Triumphal Arch, along with other festivities that lasted several days in October. The word "Victory" is painted on the sides of a wooden tower that rises from the section of the stands in front of the Mercantile Club, built on North Broad Street in 1892 after designs by Baker & Dallett. Patriotic bunting and American flags decorate the stands and surrounding buildings.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Subject Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Peace.
Clubhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Reviewing stands -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Social & civic facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1400 block -- West side.
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1422-1426.
Genre Lantern slides -- 1890-1900.
Associated name Baker & Dallett, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.242]
Accession number P.9453.242