Decoration Day parade
Grab
Description
Sailors with rifles at attention on Woodward near the Detroit Opera House (Campus Martius). Sailors staging cannon drill for the crowd. Soldiers or marines behind, with mounted officers. Sign for Michell's drugstore, Wright, Kay, & Co. Jewelers, National Loan & Investment Co., Hamlyn & Fordyce Real Estate, Victor Cash Register Co., L.A. Smith Co., Mills & Gibb. War memorial on traffic island. Handwritten on mat front: "7." Handwritten on mat back: "Decoration Day, 1895."
Details
- Resource ID:
- DPA1782
- Subject:
- Parades--Michigan--Detroit
- Memorial Day
- Drill and minor tactics--Michigan--Detroit
- Cabinet photographs
- Albumen prints
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1895-05-30
- Format:
- 1 cabinet card ; image 4.5 x 6.5 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Anniversaries-Memorial Day
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.