A parade float, featuring a parlor car for the railroad, during the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration

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A parade float, featuring a parlor car for the railroad, during the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration

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dc.contributor Iddings, Andrew S. en_US
dc.coverage.spatial Dayton, Ohio; Montgomery County; United States en_US
dc.coverage.temporal 1909 en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-06-04T12:58:37Z
dc.date.available 2009-06-04T12:58:37Z
dc.date.created 1909-06-18 en_US
dc.date.issued 1909-06-18
dc.identifier.other ms192_143 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.WSU/3385
dc.description The image shows a float that features a model of a railroad parlor car which was created by the Barney and Smith Company. The float showed a modern parlor car entering a tunnel with passengers staged in the back of the car, as well as, on the back deck. The car is numbered 217 on the side and has a stained glass window in the back. The float was being pulled by horses through a residential portion of downtown Dayton, Ohio. This float was part of the history of locomotion in America section of the parade which featured floats representing various modes of transportation during the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration. This section of the parade started with the birch bark canoe and ended with a model of the Wright Flyer. en_US
dc.language Eng en_US
dc.relation.isformatof Photographic Negative en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Andrew Iddings' Wright Brothers Homecoming Collection en_US
dc.rights.uri http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special en_US
dc.subject Actors en_US
dc.subject Barney and Smith Company (Dayton, Ohio) en_US
dc.subject Dayton--Streets en_US
dc.subject Dayton (Ohio) Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration -- 1909 en_US
dc.subject Horse-drawn vehicles en_US
dc.subject Horses en_US
dc.subject Parade floats en_US
dc.subject Parades en_US
dc.subject Railroad cars en_US
dc.subject Railroad passenger cars en_US
dc.subject Spectators en_US
dc.subject Streets--Ohio en_US
dc.subject Streets--Ohio--Dayton en_US
dc.title A parade float, featuring a parlor car for the railroad, during the 1909 Wright Brothers Homecoming Celebration en_US
dc.type Photographic Negative en_US
dc.equipment.digitizing Epson Expression 10000 XL en_US
dc.publisher.digital Digital Services Department, Wright State University Libraries en_US
dc.date.digitized 2008/02/01 en_US
dc.rights.permissions World en_US
dc.publisher.OLinstitution Wright State University
dc.publisher.OLrepository Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries

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