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[Bi-centenary celebration, floral clock, Hiram Walker & Co. float, Detroit, Mich.] – Antique Wall Art

[Bi-centenary celebration, floral clock, Hiram Walker & Co. float, Detroit, Mich.], [1901] — historic photograph
[Bi-centenary celebration, floral clock, Hiram Walker & Co. float, Detroit, Mich.], [1901]. Historic photograph from the Detroit collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Bi-centenary celebration, floral clock, Hiram Walker & Co. float, Detroit, Mich.]

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A floral clock mounted on a Hiram Walker & Co. float sets this view apart from other scenes of Detroit's 1901 bicentennial parades. The firm, a distiller based in Walkerville, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, used the float to take part in the celebration of the city's founding in 1701 by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many commercial views of American cities around the turn of the century, made two close glass-plate negatives of the float, so the pair can be compared side by side. Together they show how civic pageantry and corporate advertising mixed in early twentieth-century street parades.

Created / published[1901]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Negatives are close variants. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032546. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsFloats (Parades) Parades & processions. Centennial celebrations.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66124

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