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Olympic parade (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • foundmysock said:
    This Olympic Parade took place in midtown Manhattan, New York City.
  • aware health said:
    And just like today, you couldn't escape political advertisements. I think this is the corner of Broadway and 5th Ave -- that looks like 200 5th Ave across to the left. See: graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/16/business/16office...
  • STOP BLACK ON ASIAN VIOLENCE said:
    that was the garfield national bank's new headquarters, opened 1909. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E0DC123EE733A... the view in the photo was taken from the flatiron building.
  • Wystan said:
    The 1912 Olympic games were held in Stockholm, Sweden, from late June to late July. This event in New York City, on August 24, must have been part of a "welcome home" ceremony, for recognition of returning American athletes, and a celebration of their achievements.

Colonel Donovan and staff of 165th Infantry, passing under the Victory Arch, New York City., 1919

from U.S. National Archives

  • TVL1970 said:
    The "Colonel Donovan" named in the photo's caption is none other than World War I Medal of Honor recipient United States Army Colonel William Joseph Donovan. From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Donovan): "During World War I, Donovan organized and led a battalion of the United States Army, designated the 165th Regiment of the 42nd Division, the federalized designation of the famed 69th New York Volunteers, (the 'Fighting 69th'). In France one of his charges was poet Joyce Kilmer. For his service near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, on 14 and 15 October 1918, he received the Medal of Honor. By the end of the war he received a promotion to colonel, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts " Much better known as "Wild Bill" Donovan, he was a law school classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Donovan, although a Republican, was a friend and confidant of Democrat Roosevelt's prior to the Second World War and on the eve of the war was entrusted by FDR to found the Coordinator of Information (COI), which would become the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Donovan would lead the OSS until it was disbanded by President Truman in September 1947. The Victory Arch depicted in the photo was a temporary structure erected in Madison Square Park (note the Flatiron Building looking north though the arch) at the conclusion of World War I to honor New York's war dead. It would later be dismantled.

Recruiting ad. -- 23d & Broadway, [N.Y.] (LOC)

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