Inaugurated in 1901 and held each New Year's Day, this is the 2019 Mummers parade on Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (LOC)

Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.

 

Inaugurated in 1901 and held each New Year's Day, this is the 2019 Mummers parade on Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

2019-01-01.

 

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

 

Notes:

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

The parade is believed to be the oldest folk festival in the United States. Local clubs (usually called "New Years Associations") compete in one of four categories: comics, fancies, string bands, and fancy brigades. The first parade was January 1, 1901.

Gift/purchase; with support of the Pew Charitable Trusts; 2019; (DLC/PP-2019:012)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

 

Subjects:

Mummers Parade--Parades--New Years Day--Comics--String bands--Fancy brigades--America

United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

 

Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.56030

 

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 56030

 

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