Conventions and parades. Interesting postcards of Americana Updated 05/31/09

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Minneapolis 1897 Grand Reunion Atlantic City 1907 Atlantic City. Copyright 1906 but convention was elsewhere. Atlantic City 1911
Bradford PA State Elks August 1910 Baltimore 1903 Baltimore pin & medal Cincinnati 1904. card and medal
Baltimore 1916 Baltimore presents for GER. 1904 convention.   Cleveland  medal for convention in 1904
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Buffalo 1905 Buffalo 1905 Chicago, IL Grant Park. date unknown 1912 Elks State convention. Possibly Mahoney PA
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Cincinnati 1904. Neat badge (there are many for sale on ebay) from Knoxville TN Denver "City of Lights' unknown date GL convention. Probably Denver but not certain Detroit Elks 1910. Sharp!. For more on Detroit click here
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1908 another view of Dallas Night view of Dallas. 1908 or 1910? Neat Float. Location unknown 1897 Mountain Elks Parade. Minneapolis probably
Dallas 1908 Dallas Stereoview 1908 Dallas Welcome Postcard 1908 1908 Dallas TX convention
Goodwill Fleet Article from the elks Magazine in 1934 Everett, WA Elks parade 1909. Colby building decorated L A. Date unknown Los Angeles, CA Convention. Tallest Man
Los Angeles parade in 1915
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LA GL parade 1926 Los Angeles convention 1921. Los Angeles convention 1921. NY number 1 mother lodge float 1915 train from KS to CA for California Exposition
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LA 1921 Orange Empire LA convention 1929 ticket LA Convention 1921 Intriguing picture of prop car used for some convention. Apparently for Jewish Elks.
LA Lodge Float in 1921 Reading PA 1916 Rutherford NJ. Date unk Will Rodgers at Elks Rodeo in Bakersfield CA
ElksParadeReadingPA1916.jpeg (75007 bytes) RutherfordNJELKSparade.jpg (79851 bytes)
 Jerome Fisher for GER Rochester 1913 Salt Lake City 1902 Badge  Joe Fanning
JeromeFisherGER.jpg (11581 bytes)   JoeFanning1896.jpg (19495 bytes)
 Jackson MI Drill Team won many a contest.    Pasadena -tournament of Roses. early 1900's  
 JacksonMIDrillTeamWinners1921.jpg (108720 bytes) Miami FL 1928 Program in adobe format. Click here 300k 1936 Convention in Los Angeles. Click here for Sept. Elks Magazine Highlights. Huge success btw with 80,000 people attending the LA Coliseum. Also click here for the Motion Picture Electrical Pageant program. Both are 2 meg+ Adobe pdf files.
 C F Tomlinson for Lecturing Knight Cover of 1950 Program in Miami    
Tomlinson1896.jpg (26601 bytes)    Philadelphia 1955 convention program in adobe format. Click here 363k

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