Black Elks Parade Photographs
name: label: Names
content: Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World
topic: label: Topic
content: African Americans
label: Topic
content: Marching bands
label: Topic
content: Parades -- 1950-1960
label: Topic
content: Drill teams
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection purchased from Between the Covers Rare Books, January 2020.
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection documents aBlack Elks' Labor Day parade in Philadelphia in September 1957.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1957
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1499
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Archives Center Staff, 2021.
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: Thirty photographs (3.5" x Order of the Elks of the World (known colloquially as the Blacks Elks).  The images were taken on the corner of Spruce and Broad Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Featured are various Elk Club chapters, drill teams, marching bands, dignitaries in convertibles, and banners identifying marching groups from New York, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.