About This Item
- Title[Tercentenary Parade, folder II]
- Call NumberHOLI_0487
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0483, HOLI 0482, HOLI 0478, HOLI 0479, HOLI 0486, HOLI 0485, HOLI 0484, HOLI 0473, HOLI 0476, HOLI 0477, HOLI 0474, HOLI 0475, HOLI 0481, HOLI 0480), some of which may also be described in this new record; Fifteen images of parade and festivities comemmorating three hundred years of Long Island history; most images show scenes from parade on Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza (parade route went from Downtown Brooklyn to Riverhead, Long Island); 0473 shows three men costumed as harpooners and whalers on float "Designed And Built By W.P.A. Workers"; unfinished Central Library at Grand Army Plaza (later razed and rebuilt) in left background; high-rise apartment buildings on Prospect Park West in right background; 0474 shows marching band seen from above and middle of Eastern Parkway; crowds lining sidewalk at left; 0475 shows troop of uniformed adolescent boys marching with rifles and seen from below; 0476 shows Boy Scout marching band preceeding color guard, seen from above and middle of Eastern Parkway; crowds lining sidewalks on both sides of street; 0477 shows marching band passing reviewing stand (left); high-rise apartment buildings on Eastern Parkway at left; 0478 (retouched) shows three women on float with oversize milk bottle representing Renken Dairy; 0479 shows troop of soldiers marching with rifles, seen from below; 0480 shows marching band passing equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant on Bedford Avenue (possibly on occasion other than Tercentenary Parade); 0481 (retouched) shows overhead veiw of troops of soldiers marching along Beford Avenue (possibly on occasion other than Tercentenary Parade); 0482 (10 x 8 in.) shows three women in satin dresses on float decked with flowers; lettering at bottom of float reads, "...N OF INDU..."; 0483 (10 x 8 in.) shows military nurse marching alone past reviewing stand on Eastern Parkway; trombonist in marching band in background; 0484 (retouched) shows whaling float seen in 0473 passing by rising slope of former reservoir on Eastern Parkway (now Mount Prospect Park); 0485 shows group of women in period costume on float representing Abraham & Straus department store; reviewing stand on Eastern Parkway at left; 0486 shows three police officers marching with flags, followed by man dressed as Uncle Sam in turn; marching band behind Uncle Sam figure; crowd lining sidewalk on Eastern Parkway at left; 0487 shows group of women in period costume on top of float representing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; man in suit marching alone in right foreground.
- Date[1936]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description15 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle supplied by cataloger.
- SubjectParades -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parade floats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Marching bands -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boy Scouts -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.