Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0469, HOLI 0468, HOLI 0471, HOLI 0458, HOLI 0459, HOLI 0463, HOLI 0462, HOLI 0465, HOLI 0464, HOLI 0467, HOLI 0466, HOLI 0461, HOLI 0472, HOLI 0470), 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 in Crown Heights but some show scenes at other points along the parade route from Downtown Brooklyn to Riverhead, Long Island; 0458 shows crowd assembled for speeches in front of Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola; 0459 shows closer view of crowd in front of reviewing stand at Nassau County Courthouse, with women dressed in historical costume of different periods and man dressed as Uncle Sam; 0460 shows sailors and boys marching in formation on Eastern Parkway; 0461 (retouched) shows line of adults and children marching in Dutch colonial costume, probably on Eastern Parkway; 0462 shows float on Eastern Parkway representing American Indian on teepee ("Chief Mineola, 1636") and mother with two children ("Mineola Today, 1936"); 0463 shows five women in period costume waving from float representing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; high-rise apartment buildings around Grand Army Plaza in background; 0464 (retouched) shows close-up of four of the women on Brooklyn Daily Eagle float; 0465 (copies 1 and 2) shows two women in feathered headdresses on float ("Wise Shoe") on Eastern Parkway; 0466 (copies 1 and 2) shows float on Eastern Parkway representing Long Island Lighting Company; woman on float dressed as allegorical figure, perhaps the goddess Artemis/Diana; 0467 shows another view of five women on float representing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; large crowd lining Eastern Parkway at left; 0468 shows float representing Dugan's food company ("Serving Homes Pure Food Products For 60 Years"), with food vendor and horse and carriage on flatbed truck; reviewing stand and large crowd on Eastern Parkway at left; 0469 shows group of nurses on float representing the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross; reviewing stand on Eastern Parkway at left; 0470 shows children on float representing Orphan Asylum Society; reviewing stand on Eastern Parkway at left; 0471 shows two men in uniform carrying banner ("Loesser's Presents") ahead of float decked with flowers and greenery; rising hill of former reservoir on Eastern Parkway (now Mount Prospect Park) in background; some spectators seated on slope of reservoir, others standing on sidewalk; 0472 shows Loew's Theatres Cadet Band, seen from above and middle of Eastern Parkway; crowds lining both sides of sidewalk; high-rise apartment buildings at left.
SubjectParades -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parade floats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Marching bands -- New York (State) -- New York ; Reviewing stands -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
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