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hmm Usually i hear of parades or marches for the army (apparently as a power show) ... but policemen parade? I don't know how much common is that.

I find the "slow unravelling of the photos details and origins" on these pages through the investigative comments and detailed knowledge of several posters as fascinating as the photos themselves - yesterdays was a great example ...... I'll be back to see what follows

Hurraah, Hurrah Limerick features on NLI in Flickr but where's this Georges Street I ask. That beautiful thoroughfare is O'Connell St with The Crescent and O'Connell Avenue in the distance. Limerick is of course a very old city but in the 1700's/1800's a planned city on a grid was developed and this street was part of what is/was Newtown-Pery. The massed ranks are marching in the opposite direction to modern parades as we normally had parades that marched down towards the O'Connell Street/William St. junction behind the photographer. I know they look like policemen but I can't see that many "polis" having a role in Limerick around that time. They are marching in the direction of the "New" barracks, now Sarsfields Barracks, and I suspect that this might explain the direction and the echelons.

there seem to be a band marching in the opposite direction???

TJ No TJ, if you look closely in Original size you will see that they have the bayonet frogs to the left just like the group closest the camera. I was just going to comment on the bayonets, they are each wearing a bayonet in a frog on a white belt. This is more a military item of kit than police and looking at the dress of the NCO's they are wearing sashes etc which is once again more a military affectation than a police one.

L-R: Etta Silverfriend, Henry Silverfriend, and Koreshan Unity founder Dr. Cyrus Reed Teed. Office located on Englewood Ave. at corner of 63rd St.

Accompanying note: "Officers:- C.R. Teed, H.D. Silverfriend, L.M. Boomer, James W. Bubbett, Etta Silverfriend."

Guiding Star Publishing House, established in 1888, published several Koreshan tracts including The Flaming Sword, The American Eagle, and The Guiding Star. Operations moved from Chicago to Estero in 1903 and continued into the mid-20th century.

Back row (L-R): Junius Van Duzee, Hattie Englert, Walter Bartsch, George Sandler. Third row: Mr. E. Benson Steele, Annie Ray Andrews, Rosa Morrow, Imogene Bubbett Rahn, Etta Silverfriend, Allen Andrews, James H. Bubbett, Robert Graham. Seated: Lydia Gray, Isabelle Van Duzee, Ulysses S. Morrow, Barbara Ehrisman, Ella Graham. Front row: Winfield Bowlus, Claude Rahn, DeCoursey Clinchy, Richard Jentsch.

Guiding Star Publishing House, established in 1888, published several Koreshan tracts including The Flaming Sword, The American Eagle, and The Guiding Star. Operations moved from Chicago to Estero in 1903 and continued into the mid-20th century.