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Patriotic Day parade on Main Street, River Falls, Wisconsin

• 1917 (creation)

1 photograph : print, sepia toned ; sheet 11 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Real-photo postcard with image of the Patriotic Day parade on Main Street in River Falls, Wisconsin (April 27, 1917), showing soldiers marching in two lines down the middle of a dirt street with many automobiles and several horse-and-buggies on either side of them. Main Street businesses can be seen in the background. Many pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalk in front of the businesses. Streamers are strung to a streetlight in the middle of the street. Printed on Azo Paper, with all four triangles pointing up (used 1904-1918). Unused.

This item is made available by the University Archives & Area Research Center, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, for personal, educational, and research purposes in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of Copyright Act of 1976. Other uses may require permission from the copyright owner.

Cataloged by kdo, 08/14/2017

Gift of James Ap Roberts, via Willis Miller.

Postcard box 1

[Wisconsin] : [Privately printed?], 1917.

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