Air Force A-10 jets, Recognition Weekend
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Air Force A-10 jets flying low over North Pleasant Street during the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986-07-19
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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MAR0076
Shriners, Recognition Weekend Parade
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Members of the Shriners marching in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0066
Peace marchers, Recognition Weekend parade
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Peace activists marching along with the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986-07-19
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0067
Marine Corps Band, Drum and Bugle Corps, Recognition Weekend parade
Parades -- Massachusetts -- Amherst
Amherst (Mass.)
Marine Corps band which marched in the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR75
Buddhist Peace Fellowship members
Peace
Children and peace
Buddhists
Amherst (Mass.)
Members of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship preparing to march along with the military parade for Recognition Weekend, an event organized at UMass in mid-July, 1986. The event was designed as a vehicle to honor veterans. It drew a large number of people interested in balancing the military display with a message of peace.
Martin, John H.
Jones Library Special Collections
1986
Rights held by John H. Martin
Is part of the John H. and Anthony Martin Photograph Collection, Jones Library Special Collections
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English
Photographs
MAR0065
Thomas W. Smith with horse and cart
Parades
Amherst (Mass.)
View of Thomas W. Smith sitting in a cart holding the reins attached to a horse. Written on back: "Thomas W. Smith as he appeared in the Horribles Section of the parade at the Flag Pole dedication. Picture taken at rear of 31 North Prospect Street. Horse belonged to John Musante."
Thomas W. Smith was Amherst town clerk from 1912 to 1930.
Many parades in the nineteeth century had a "horribles" section consisting of people wearing funny and grotesque costumes.
Jones Library Special Collections
1899
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Folder: Smith, Thomas W. -- Scrapbook