Float -- Order of the Cincinnati [postcard]
1909
P&E L2008M170m [mod]
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Title
Float -- Order of the Cincinnati [postcard]
Published
New York Redfield Brothers, Inc. 1909
Description
1 color postcard ; 9 x 14 cm.
Call Number
P&E L2008M170m [mod]
Note
The front side pictures the float with a tall stone building with portico and a figure of George Washington standing and waving in the portico and a group of officers standing on the lawn waving to Washington. Along the sides of the float are American flags, drums, cannon, and the eagle of the Society. In the upper left corner of the front it reads: "Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. Official post card no. 35."
On the back, above the area for "Correspondence" and "Address" it reads, left to right: 1609 - 1909, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, with two circles below with likeness of ships, one with the date 1609 and the other dated 1807; Official Souvenir Post Card; and a square for a stamp which reads: Place stamp here
United States Cuba Canada and Mexico one cent
Foreign two cents" Below this copy it reads: Redfield Brothers, Inc., authorized publishers, 311 West 43rd St., New York City" In the lower left, below the small area for :correspondence, it reads: "Order of the Cincinnati--The order of the Cincinnati was formed in "The Temple" near Newburgh in 1783, to perpetuate the memories of the American Revolution. It is composed of descendants of officers in the allied American and French armies and is the oldest hereditary society in the United States."
See also "The Hudson-Fulton celebration : New York's river festival of 1909 and the making of a metropolis" (call no. 974.71 J66 2009)
On the back, above the area for "Correspondence" and "Address" it reads, left to right: 1609 - 1909, Hudson-Fulton Celebration, with two circles below with likeness of ships, one with the date 1609 and the other dated 1807; Official Souvenir Post Card; and a square for a stamp which reads: Place stamp here
United States Cuba Canada and Mexico one cent
Foreign two cents" Below this copy it reads: Redfield Brothers, Inc., authorized publishers, 311 West 43rd St., New York City" In the lower left, below the small area for :correspondence, it reads: "Order of the Cincinnati--The order of the Cincinnati was formed in "The Temple" near Newburgh in 1783, to perpetuate the memories of the American Revolution. It is composed of descendants of officers in the allied American and French armies and is the oldest hereditary society in the United States."
See also "The Hudson-Fulton celebration : New York's river festival of 1909 and the making of a metropolis" (call no. 974.71 J66 2009)
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