Welcoming arch at Denver, Colo.

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A welcoming arch stretching over a Denver street is the subject here, the kind of temporary structure cities raised to greet visitors, conventions and parades. The image survives as a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures of current events in the early twentieth century. The title comes from unverified caption data, so the occasion and exact date are not recorded. Such arches were usually hung with bunting and erected for a particular celebration, so the structure itself is the main evidence of the event.

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