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Photo Illustrators (Firm),
photographer.
[American Legion parade, Broad Street, Philadelphia, August 30, 1949]
[graphic] /
The Photo-Illustrators, 1206 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. Commercial Photographers.
[Philadelphia],
August 30, 1949.
1 photograph :
gelatin silver ;
sheet 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10.25 in.)
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from manuscript note written on verso: 1371 American Legion Parade Aug. 30 49 passing Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia.
Scene from the parade showing a float of the battleship "Post 654, Waterman ILL" passing a large crowd in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, opposite the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, near Walnut Street. Men, women, and children spectators, including African Americans, sit and stand along the street and look on from windows and balconies. A photographer on a ladder records the event in the street. American flag bunting and a sign that reads, "Welcome Delegates" decorate the awning of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The American Legion, chartered in 1919, is a patriotic veterans mutual aid society.
Forms part of: The Photo-Illustrators Collection.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
American Legion.
4979
Ritz-Carlton Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African Americans
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
Parades & processions
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Photographers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Spectators
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
South
200 block
Gelatin silver prints
1940-1950.
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Women.
82663
SP3
African American History
SP10
Philadelphia artists.
Imprint
PA. Philadelphia.
1949.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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