Can any one help with info on this

[jtw1313]

Can make out words in pencil just may 27 something parade

 

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[cudamark]

You need a better close up photo of the area in question. It's cut off in everything I see here.

 

[OWK]

It is an Illustration that was once printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. (a newspaper)

It apparently depicts a parade of CW vets (probably GAR).

Given the date, it is likely a memorial day parade

 

[DCMatt]

The prominent word in the 1st pic is "Roto" - short for Rotogravure.

a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long print runs of magazines and stamps.

I agree it looks like a GAR parade.

DCMatt

 

[diggummup]

Why the crop job when you are asking for information on it?
Doesn't make sense. How about a photo of the entire thing in one picture?

 

[jtw1313]

I will get a better photo when I get time but after looking at it think it says boy roto

 

[jtw1313]

Here is better pic

Really wasn't cropped

 

[DCMatt]

Here's a possible clue:

The 35th Encampment of GAR was held in Cleveland in Sept. 1901. It was a big deal because President McKinley, an Ohio man and member of GAR, was supposed to attend. Instead, he was dying from an assassin's bullet in Buffalo. This roto could NOT be from 1901 because it is stamped with the address of the Plain Dealer building which was not completed until about 1917.

I found the text of an article written in 1947 recalling the 1901 parade. It is possible this roto was used or considered for print with the article. May 27, 1947 was the day after Memorial Day so... who knows.

Whatever the case, I'm sure the Cleveland Historical Society would be interested in this item.

Here is the text of the article:

Recalls Brave Show GAR made in Parade of 1901
by W.G. Corps
I stood at from window of my office yesterday morning and watched what will probably be the last parade of the GAR. As jet planes roared overhead memory brought back vividly the parade of the then powerful GAR 46 years ago in Cleveland. I was one of the reporters who covered that parade, as well as the encampment, for the Plain Dealer.
It was the important gather of many years in the this city and the newspaper turned their editorial staff over to the job. There were fewer man to do the news gathering in that era and all the editorial workers were on duty from early morning till late at night.
I worked more than 18 hours that day and must have walked 10 miles while that parade was one. I had been detailed to write a feature story of human interest and the city editor did not provide me with any conveyance except my lets.
The parade of 1901 was made appealing to the onlooker because the President of the United States, William McKinley, an Ohio man a member of the GAR, was to have received it from the stand in Public Square. Instead, he was dying in buffalo from an assassin's bullet, shot down while his former buddies were holding their encampment. The tragedy affected the thousands of old soldiers who marched silently for hours down Euclid Ave.
For miles that thoroughfare and several others traversed by the marchers were packed with onlookers and Public Quare was a dense throng. Not only all of the Cleveland turned out, but thousand came from neighboring counties. Every office and store window along the line was filled with faces and numerous stand, erected at vantage points, had the seats taken for a price. It was sight no one wanted to miss for it was never gain to be seen in Cleveland.
The parade started around 10 in the morning and was nearing its end about 4 PM. In that line of march were many thousands of foot, squads of cavalry and batteries with men riding gun carriages which were drawn by sturdy horses bounced over the hard pavements. Only a few of he old fighters, crippled or fatigued, rod in the horse-drawn carriages that also bore the distinguished visitors and some of the city officials. There was no USMC sent on by an appreciative government to lead the parade.
Through more than 35 years had passed since these men faced death on southern battlefield they still walked erect, many carrying the fifes they used in the war some with drawn swords, held upright, others bearing the rifles they used in the war, some with drawn swords, held upright, others bearing along the flags they fought under. There were also many women in the parade, for the Woman's Relief Corps was a large and vital auxiliary of the GAR. There were also many of the Sons of Veterans, an organization then in its prime.
It was marching parade, a long parade and one far different from the witnessed yesterday over a short section of the line of march in 1901.
There was no auto with loud speakers that rode far ahead of the parade and informed the crowd what was doing all the time. There were no motorcycle police leading the line, just ahead of a small group of mounted police. In that first parade horse-mounted police rode ahead and along the line of several miles.
There were no sleek and gleaming motorcars in which the veterans could ride who yesterday, only a handful, sat, proudly bearing their advanced years, in front of the reviewing stand as the populace greeted them with cheers and handshakes.
These survivors of the soldiers body once so invincible in peace as well as war surely realized the great changes they have seem in their century of life, changes reflected in the parades of the years.
To me, yesterday's parade brought a note of sadness, for it told me that an organization which grew to great strength in peace after a war to preserve a Nation was nearing its end. The last parade was on. It marked the passing of an era in history. [SIZE=-1]Source:
Plain Dealer by W.G. Corps, Cleveland, Ohio [/SIZE]

DCMatt

 

[DCMatt]

One more note:

There was a GAR National Encampment in Cleveland in 1947 which probably prompted the article.

DCMatt

 

[jtw1313]

Thanks alot very helpful appreciate you taking the time

 

[diggummup]

Really wasn't cropped

My apologies. I didn't notice that the actual photograph is what had been cropped, not your image. My last reply sounded a little harsh.

 

[jtw1313]

Lol it's ok