Historical Portrait

[Civil War veterans of Lafayette Post, G.A.R., at soldiers' monument in Easton, Pa., May 30th, 1930]

1930·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain

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1 photograph : print ; image 190 x 241 mm, mount 276 x 327 mm. | Photograph shows group portrait of identified Union veterans from left to right, Daniel Dachrodt (drummer), Allen Chifton, John Parker, Jos. Branch, Samuel Barry, Albert Clewell, P.H. Hager, Jacob Bitzer, J.E. Steele, Jeremiah Keller, Charles F. Chidsey, Elton E. Cobb (a visiting G.A.R. from Bradford County, N.Y.).

About this photograph

This photograph was taken at a soldiers' monument in Easton, Pennsylvania, on May 30th, 1930. It shows members of Lafayette Post, a local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic, the fraternal organisation of Union veterans of the Civil War.

The men are identified from left to right as Daniel Dachrodt (drummer), Allen Chifton, John Parker, Jos. Branch, Samuel Barry, Albert Clewell, P.H. Hager, Jacob Bitzer, J.E. Steele, Jeremiah Keller, Charles F. Chidsey, and Elton E. Cobb, a visiting member from Bradford County, New York.

The Grand Army of the Republic was founded in 1866 and its local posts ran reunions and memorial observances for decades after the war. By 1930, sixty-five years after the war's end, the surviving veterans were elderly men. The date, May 30th, was Memorial Day, long observed by the organisation.

The photographer was Clarence Edward Felker.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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