Name/Title
Bands Lined Up for Parade Snapshot, 1937Entry/Object ID
P2020.2.15Description
Bands Lined Up for Parade Snapshot, 1937. Band including elementary age members lined up in front of a building. (The building is not identified). This may be related to the 1937 Labor Day Parade, held Monday, Sept. 6, according to the Union Observer newspaper. The photo was developed on Sept. 8, 1937 by Runner Film Co, Kansas City. The Labor Day parade featured 4000 participants and a huge crowd of onlookers according to the paper, It formed near 3rd & Edmond and marched to City Hall & back. See 14.26.756 for other photos of this parade.
This building is not identified. It is neither Patee Market, First Police Station, or Irish American Building. as some supposed.
The other possibility is the Apple Blossom Parade, held May 8. The bands in that parade formed up on Diagonal Street near City Hall and entered the parade there.
(The building is not the police station or Patee Market).Collection
Marshall & Melanie WhiteMade/Created
Studio
UnknownDate made
1900Place
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Parade, Labor Day ParadeDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 8¾" x 6½"
pasted on dark cardboard mat, 10" x 12"Provenance
Notes
Purchased by donor at flea market type venue.