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[Bi-centenary celebration, floral parade, Nume [?] Cadillac's carriage float, Detroit, Mich.] – Historic Reproduction

[Bi-centenary celebration, floral parade, Nume [?] Cadillac's carriage float, Detroit, Mich.], [1901] — historic photograph
[Bi-centenary celebration, floral parade, Nume [?] Cadillac's carriage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Bi-centenary celebration, floral parade, Nume [?] Cadillac's carriage float, Detroit, Mich.]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The float in this picture honors Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the French officer who founded the settlement on the Detroit River in 1701. The city marked its 200th year in the summer of 1901 with a week of festivities, and the floral parade gave residents a chance to show civic pride through flowers, costumes, and local history. Carriages were still a familiar part of American street life then, which makes this float a useful glimpse of how a city dressed up its past for the public. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made the picture as a large glass negative, recorded many such scenes across the country.

Created / published[1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032544. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsParades & processions. Centennial celebrations. Carriages & coaches.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66122

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