Veterans of Foreign Wars

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philadelphia Record

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

Municipal Stadium (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Veterans' organizations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Parades & processions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Local Subjects:

Veterans' organizations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Parades & processions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of the Philadelphia Record

Physical Description:

82 photoprints : silver gelatin

Place of Publication:

1941-1946

Summary:

Contains views of Philadelphia activities sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Depicts conventions, encampments, and parades. Highlights competitions at Municipal Stadium by the bugle corps, drum corps, and color guard. Parade images focus on Broad Street. They show veterans, particularly the "cooties", and spectators.

These subject entries for the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photo morgue are primarily for Places (buildings, parks, streets, etc.), Things (Bicycles, Bison, Blind Persons [just sampling the B's]), Events (Democratic National Convention 1936, Flourtown Fair, Harvest Week) and Social Constructs (Home Economics, City Planning, Eating & Drinking, etc.). Each of these subjects became a MARC record which included a call number. In the case of these records, the call numbers are the actual folder numbers for the materials referenced. Therefore, these subject headings are really also an index for this section of the Philadelphia Record newspaper's photograph morgue. [The name section of the Philadelphia Record photo morgue represents individuals, A-Z, and

Notes:

Part of the Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection; for general information, see collection record.