Flags
3 photographs featuring various US flag displays, including a "living flag" demonstration at a GAR parade in Anderson, IN.
8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. silver gelatin photograph on slightly larger cardstock mount (toning, minor wear to edges and corners of print; mount with soiling and wear to edges and corners). Ca 1903. Verso inscribed, in part: "Living Flag, Anderson Indiana G.A.R."
Pictured is a large temporary bleacher structure set up in front of the Madison County Courthouse, filled with individuals arranged to depict the American flag. The photograph has been lightly tinted so that the canton section appears slightly blue and every other stripe appears slightly red.
The GAR parade at which this image was captured took place on 14 May 1903. It was at the end of a 3-day encampment of the Indiana GAR. The flag was made up of 2,000 school children wearing colored capes and caps. The overwhelming response to the spectacle led to the replication of the display in other cities in years following, including GAR gatherings in Toledo and Salt Lake City. ("Living Flag Moves Civil War Veterans" by Steve Jackson, Madison County Historian).
[With:] 8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph of a woman wearing a draped, one-shoulder top and gauzy skirt, posed dramatically with a large American flag (soiling, wear/loss to edges and corners). New York: Sarony, n.d. Verso bears inscribed caption, "Miss Liberty" along with multiple Culver Pictures, Inc. labels and others.
[With:] 9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. mounted collodion photograph of a fraternal group posed before two American flags and a portrait of James A. Garfield (toning, soiling, clipped edges; mount with chipping, staining, and clipped edges). Mount bears partial imprint reading, "and Clinch." Verso with light pencil inscription reading, "Ancient Order of Foresters of Amer[ica]." Some of the men wear ornate badges and at least two appear to hold ceremonial axes with stag heads and letters "AOF of A."
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
