Sunbelt Expansion, pt. 1 (23367)

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Photo archive of 49 items, including 11 silver gelatin photographs and 29 large format negatives approximately 4" x 5", Clearwater, Florida, circa 1950s. Downtown parade routes pass McCrory's, Fussell's Drug Store, Jay W. Cavellier Optician, Purelube, Sinclair, Gulf, and other storefronts, with spectators lining sidewalks beside parked midcentury automobiles. Women occupy much of the ceremonial foreground: a crowned older woman sits in a satin gown and cape before large floral arrangements; young attendants and adult women pose beneath bunting and a star flag; and a Miami Chpater of Women of the Moose float carries seated women around a small shrine-like structure. Moose floats advertise "Mooseheart, Home for Our Widows and Children," "Moosehaven, Home for Our Old Folks," "Little Lodge with a Big Heart," and "On Way to Moosehaven, Orange Park, Fla." Additional convention scenes include men in Moose caps and light suits shaking hands before a mural, a speaker addressing seated officers from a stage extend the same civic setting through veterans, color guards, marching bands, baton twirlers, children carrying American flags, drum corps, honor guards, and majorettes moving down palm lined streets.

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