Panoramic photograph of parade passing a Welcome Home arch – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Panoramic photograph of parade passing a Welcome Home arch. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Panoramic photograph of parade passing a Welcome Home arch
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A wide-angle view of a street parade moving beneath a Welcome Home arch gives this picture its particular character: the arch, spanning the roadway, marks the procession as a homecoming rather than a routine civic march. Arches like this were common in American towns after the world wars, when communities raised temporary structures of wood, bunting and painted slogans to greet returning servicemen. The panoramic format lets the viewer take in the crowd lining the curbs, the marchers, and the decorated street front, which together show how a whole town turned out for its returning people. Such scenes are useful to historians for the local detail they preserve about clothing, transportation and public celebration.
| Original scan | 1,598 × 684 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 7126_Industrial_parade_July_1904.tif-6a34954u |
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