This stereoscopic card shows the city’s Memorial Day parade in 1875, as it winds its way down Broadway at Bond Street.
In 1875, it was called Decoration Day—taken from the practice of decorating soldiers’ graves with flowers.
The holiday was only a handful of years old at the time, but already the parade tradition had taken hold.
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Ephemeral New York 
May 28, 2012 at 11:52 pm |
That building on the northeast corner of Broadway & Bond is still there 137 years later.
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&q=broadway+%26+bond+street,+new+york,+ny&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c259900276eaa7:0x706922d3373c428e,Broadway+%26+Bond+St,+New+York,+NY+10012&gl=us&ei=UA_ET4WZB7T06AHLmtSvCg&oi=geocode_result&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA
May 29, 2012 at 12:10 am |
Good job. Looks like a few of those buildings are still there.
August 27, 2014 at 5:51 pm |
Is 1493 Broadway in the Photo? A relative lived there in 1875