Digital Snapshots

Dublin Core

Title

"Parade Float."

Series

27

Item

722

Identifier

158192-photo-0722-1

Archival Description

"Parade Float." Parade float for the Blue Prelude Girls. Authentic original, matte print displayed in "Eudora Welty," Lugene, Inc. Opticians exhibition (1936). Recto - Untitled. The date "1941" is written on the front.

Detailed Description

From the Eudora Welty Digital Archives Photographs Collection - MDAH. Black-and-white photograph of a parade scene in a city, the open-top vehicles driving away from the camera. The vehicle closest to the camera is decorated with ruffles and flowers, with a sign that reads "The blue Prelude girls" on the back, while several individuals in dresses and bonnets are riding in or holding onto the car's side. The vehicle in front of them has several men riding in or holding onto the vehicle's side, and the vehicle furthest from the camera also carries people in ruffles and bonnets. There are crowds on either side of the street with streetcar tracks on the street. The text in the bottom right corner reads "1941".

Creator

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Date

ca. 1941

Location

Jackson, Mississippi

Rights

Copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC; Courtesy Eudora Welty Collection – Mississippi Department of Archives and History
(Permission to publish required).