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Mummers sewing their costumes
- Neighborhood
- Queen Village
- Related Story
- Mummers Museum
- Street Address
- S 2nd St & Washington Ave
- Date Created
- 1964
- Description
- Color image, probably from Sunday Magazine. Depicts about ten men sewing and preparing their elaborate Mummers costumes. Caption reads: "Philadelphia plebians, banded in clubs totaling 20,000 members, spend up to $100,000 on costumes and floats for annual Mummers Parade on New Year's Day. The tradition has been traced back to the mid-17th century. Parade may be repeated for Republican Convention."
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Print Collection (Small-parades)
- Source (Bibliographic)
- "Today," the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, December 27, 1964.
- Tags
- Mummers Parade, Parades
- Topics
- Public & Social Life
- Purchase This Image
- http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=135
