Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Bird, William L.
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- William L. Bird Holidays on Display Collection
- Date
- 1877 - 2000
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.1288, Series 10
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- William L. Bird Holidays on Display Collection, 1877-2010, undated, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- Series 10, Photographs, 1877-2009, is divided into five subseries. The photographs document through black and white and color prints, slides, and transparencies floats in parades, individuals decorating and constructing parade floats and window displays for department stores. The window displays are primarily Christmas-related. The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, better known as the Rose Parade, is well represented. Subseries 10.1, Parades, 1877-1980s, consists of images that depict floats in parades and individuals decorating and constructing parade floats. The subseries is arranged chronologically and if known, the name of the parade and location are provided. Subseries 10.2, Window Displays, circa 1930s-2000s, consists of images depicting window displays at department stores as well as items used for displays such as mannequins. Subseries 10.3, Miscellaneous, 1935-1965 and undated, contains images of Messmore & Damon design work, a series of prints depicting the Cozy Cottage Cloud, a display at Marshall and Field Company and two copies of an image depicting Isabella Coleman, a prominent designer of parade floats. Subseries 10.4, Slides, 1948-1976, consists of color slides depicting primarily parades. The slides are arranged chronologically and if known, the name of the parade and location are provided. Subseries 10.5, Lantern Slides, undated, consists of seventeen color lantern slides. The slides are arranged in numerical order and are undated. Most of the slides document gardens, especially flowers, and the process of decorating parade floats.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs, negatives, and slides.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510310495-1503510310520-3
