Float for Capt. Block of Block Island, Water Street, Stonington CT

Archive

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Float for Capt. Block of Block Island, Water Street, Stonington CT

Entry/Object ID

2002.0613.387

Scope and Content

Horse drawn float personifying Capt. Block of Block Island in parade during Celebration of the Battle of Stonington, 1914. E. B. Pendleton played role of Capt. Block. Capt. Block was Pioneer Dutch Voyages of 1614. Mechanics Band of Stonington in background. Looking north on Water Street. Copy on slide 76-4 taken by Ingrid Fedderson, 1991 Index card done by Jack Fix

Collection

Dorothea Hewitt Gould Collection