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Title: GAR encampment at Long Beach
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: JD Photo
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
GAR was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the Civil War. In 1868, General Order #11 of the GAR called for May 30 to be designated as a memorial day for Union veterans; originally called "Decoration Day," this later became the U.S. national Memorial Day holiday after WWI. Founded in 1866 by Benjamin F. Stephenson of Illinois, GAR was based partly on the traditions of Freemasonry, and partly on military tradition.
A crowd of men, women, and children pose for a photo in front of tents with banners and notices at the 1900 GAR encampment at Long Beach.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074876
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1162 4x5
CARL0000078325
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2973
Subject: Grand Army of the Republic
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Long Beach
Veterans--United States
Camps--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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