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- Title[Tercentenary Parade, folder III]
- Call NumberHOLI_0488
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0494, HOLI 0495, HOLI 0496, HOLI 0497, HOLI 0490, HOLI 0491, HOLI 0492, HOLI 0493, HOLI 0489, HOLI 0498, HOLI 0499, HOLI 0502, HOLI 0500, HOLI 0501), 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); 0488 shows Boy Scout marching band followed by color guard, seen from above and middle of Eastern Parkway; 0489 (10 x 8 in.) shows aerial view of parade on Eastern Parkway looking towards Brooklyn Museum; spectators in grandstand at left; 0490 shows two Scout leaders at head of troop of African American Boy Scout marching band; crowds lining sidewalk on both sides of Eastern Parkway; 0491 shows four men in Dutch and American Indian costume on float representing "Brooklyn's Earliest Traders, The Dutch Settlers"; hill in right background probably showing slope of former reservoir on Eastern Parkway, now Mount Prospect Park; 0492 shows four or five women on float respresenting the H. C. Bohack supermarket company; 0493 shows two men riding on carriage with four horses representing "N.Y. Police Traffic Safety Campaign"; reviewing stand at far left; 0494 shows two women in period costume on float representing Brooklyn Edison electric company; reviewing stand at far left; 0495 shows three or four people seated on float with oversize beer bottle representing "Schaefer Fine Beer"; 0496 shows troop of sailors marching with rifles through rear of memorial arch at Grand Army Plaza; commanding officer at left; entrance to Prospect Park in background; 0497 (5 x 7 in.; retouched) shows group of young women on a float representing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; location identified on verso as Coney Island, perhaps on occasion other than Tercentenary Parade; 0498 (5 x 9 in.; cut at upper left) shows troop of Boy Scouts, seen from below, marching with flags; reviewing stand in left background; 0499 (5 x 9 in.; retouched; cut at bottom) shows veterans marching with flags at Grand Army Plaza; 0500 (9 x 5 in.; retouched) shows arerial view of troops marching in formation on Eastern Parkway looking towards Brooklyn Museum; grandstand at left; 0501 and 0502 show troops in dress uniforms marching on Bedford Avenue, perhaps on occasion other than Tercentenary Parade; spectators lining sidewalk on both sides of street.
- Date[1936]
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description15 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genreaerial viewsgelatin 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.