Today's Photo of the Week is a Kodachrome slide showing a group of New Yorkers with drums and pompoms parading east over the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan. The original cataloger does not identify the parade, but notes these clues:
A 12-13. Bridges. Brooklyn Bridge. Celebrations [handwritten on mount].
MAY 77N5 3 [stamped on mount].
A curious researcher could search through our digitized newspapers to identify the parade, but they might find more information by visiting CBH to use our Local Newspapers on Microfilm Collection. For copyright reasons, many of our local newspapers are not available online from the 1960s on.
Do you remember this parade from (presumably) May 1977?
Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We welcome appointments to research our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
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Re: the May 1977 parade - I…
Great eye!
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