IL Industrial parade July 1904 Zion City PHOTO – Historic Photograph Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of IL Industrial parade July 1904 Zion City PHOTO. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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IL Industrial parade July 1904 Zion City PHOTO
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Marching through the streets of Zion, Illinois, in July 1904, this parade displayed the workforce and products of the industrial town that John Alexander Dowie had founded only a few years earlier, in 1901, as a religious community north of Chicago. Dowie organized Zion around a strict faith and a shared economy, and civic events like this one showed outsiders that the city's factories and trades were working. Parades of this kind were a popular way for American towns of the period to advertise their industry and civic pride, so the procession offers a view of how a utopian community presented itself to the public.
| Created / published | 1904 |
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| Original scan | 1,350 × 578 px · prints to 4 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | IL-Industrial-parade-July- |
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