Tercentenary Parade: New Canaan Grange Float, October 12, 1935
PhotographerPhotographed by
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Date1935
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 7 1/2 x 9 1/16in. (19 x 23cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
DescriptionTwo women and two men in seventeenth-century costume pose on a parade float covered with shocks of grain. One of the men appears to help one of the women draw water from a well with a long well sweep. He holds a wooden bucket. She holds a ceramic pitcher. A log cabin with a woodpile beside it is at the left. A shock of corn is at the right. Letters on the float read: "New / Canaan / Grange."
Object number1982.102.6
NotesSubject Note: Hartford celebrated the 300th anniversary of the founding of Connecticut with a parade on October 12, 1935. It included 20,000 marchers, 105 floats, twelve large divisions, thirty bands, over 500 separate organizations and twenty national groups. It was watched by 400,000 people and took three hours to pass by.On View
Not on view