Details
Creator Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer.
Title [Peace Jubilee parade, crew of the Merrimac in a horse-drawn carriage, North Broad Street near Columbia Avenue, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1898
Date October 1898
Physical Description 1 slide: lantern; 8 x 11 cm.(3 x 4 in.)
Description Depicts the crew of the Merrimac, a collier deliberately sunk by Richmond Pearson Hobson to barricade the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor during the Spanish American War of 1898. The nine crew men sit in a horse-drawn carriage as it makes its way up North Broad Street near Columbia Avenue. Includes a large crowd standing on the sidewalk and watching the procession in front of a landscaped garden along the 1700 block of North Broad Street. Military and naval parades were held during the Peace Jubilee to celebrate the end of the Spanish American War of 1898.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Subject Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Peace.
Parades & processions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1700 block -- east side.
Genre Lantern slides -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.268]
Accession number P.9453.268