1898 Photograph of a Boy Dressed as a Herald in a Parade during Edwardsville's Free Street Fair Flower Parade

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“1898 Photograph of a Boy Dressed as a Herald in a Parade during Edwardsville's Free Street Fair Flower Parade,” Madison Historical, accessed October 21, 2025, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/2377.

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1898 photograph of a boy, likely Edward West Hadley, riding a horse. The boy is dressed as a herald and wearing all white. The horse is wearing flowers. This was part of a flower parade held during an 1898 free street fair in Edwardsville, Illinois.

• SIUE Archive

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• Edwardsville
• culture

October 12, 1898

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

10 x 12 [inches]

• 1890s
  Edwardsville, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-011