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New Haven Week Parade Float, The First Sabbath in Quinnipiac, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A horse-drawn platform carries several costumed individuals. Most are in colonial dress; two are wearing armor.
New Haven Week Parade Float, Prudence Crandall, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A parade float carries five women in costume. Four face another woman wearing an antebellum era dress and bonnet who stands in the doorway of a small building.
New Haven Week Parade Float, Noah Webster Compiling the Dictionary, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A platform designed to look like a horizontal dictionary, pulled by horses. Two children operate a printing press and a man is seated at a table in front of two large upright books.
New Haven Week Parade Float, The Opening of the Powder House, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A horse-drawn float carries three men in Revolutionary War costume, who stand near a small building.
New Haven Week Parade Float, The Defense of West Bridge, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
Horses pull a platform carrying several people in Revolutionary War costume. Some of the soldiers have firearms and one is behind a cannon. The platform appears to show a bridge over a river.
New Haven Week Parade Float, The Treaty and Purchase of Land, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A parade float pulled by horses carries several costumed actors who appear to portray colonists and native Americans.
New Haven Week Parade Float, the Phantom Ship, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A parade float pulled by horses depicts a ship on the ocean. Skeletons are attached to the ship's sails, and a British flag projects from the ship's stern.
New Haven Week Parade Float, the Voyage of the Monitor, New Haven, Connecticut, 1912
A parade float pulled by horses. The float depicts a round submarine gun turret emerging from the ocean. Nearby a rider in costume carries a sign that that reads "Monitor."