1898 Photograph of Three Women and a Young Girl in a Carriage in the Edwardsville Free Street Fair's Flower Parade

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“1898 Photograph of Three Women and a Young Girl in a Carriage in the Edwardsville Free Street Fair's Flower Parade,” Madison Historical, accessed October 21, 2025, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/2378.

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This 1898 photograph shows three women and a young girl riding in a carriage pulled by a horse. The women are dressed in formal attire and the carriage is adorned with flowers. This was part of a flower parade held in Edwardsville, Illinois, during a Free Street Fair in October 1898.

• SIUE Archives

Godfrey Photograph Collection

• culture
• Edwardsville

October 12, 1898

English

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

10 x 12 [inches]

• 1890s
  Edwardsville, Illinois

• GodfreyPhoto-P-012