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Rockwell Funeral Procession, May 27, 1916, Photo 1 Front

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Title: Rockwell Funeral Procession, May 27, 1916, Photo 1 Front.
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Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Photograph
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Created: 1916-05-27
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the National Naval Aviation Museum
Place of Publication: Pensacola, Florida
Extent: 1 photograph, front
Language(s): Eng
Identifier: uwfnam_NAS_1916-1917_may271916_rockwellfuneralprocession(1) (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime Digital Portal Project
Subject(s): Pensacola -- Architecture -- Aviation History -- Naval History -- Military History -- Gulf Coast -- Pensacola, Florida -- Early 20th Century
Held by: University of West Florida
Held by: National Naval Aviation Museum
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwfnam_NAS_1916-1917_may271916_rockwellfuneralprocession(1)
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF

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Title: Rockwell Funeral Procession, May 27, 1916.
Type of Resource: still image
Genre: Photograph
Issuance: multipart monograph
Date Created: 1971-05-27
Publisher: West Florida History Center, UWF Libraries, digitized from materials loaned by the National Naval Aviation Museum
Place of Publication: Pensacola, Florida
Extent: 2 photographs, front and back
Language(s): Eng
Summary: Photos taken May 27, 1916 during the funeral of US Navy Civil Engineer LCDR James Vincent Rockwell who was killed in an aircraft crash on May 24, 1916. In the first photo, the procession is marching west on Garden street into the intersection with Palafox as can be seen in the bottom left photo where the street sign is present. The second photo shows the procession in front of the Isis theater on Garden Street. A horse drawn caisson can be seen in the center of the photo in front of the officer's column. Street car tracks are also visible in both photos with a street car visible clearly visible in the bottom of the second photo. The crowd of onlookers is made up of at least white and black citizens. Various modes of transportation are also visible in the side streets such as cars, horses and carts, and bicycles.
Identifier: uwfnam_NAS_1916-1917_may271916_rockwellfuneralprocession (IID)
Note(s): A Project of the Gulf Coast Maritime Digital Portal Project
Subject(s): Pensacola -- Architecture -- Aviation History -- Naval History -- Military History -- Gulf Coast -- Pensacola, Florida -- Early 20th Century
Held by: University of West Florida
Held by: National Naval Aviation Museum
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/uwf/fd/uwfnam_NAS_1916-1917_may271916_rockwellfuneralprocession
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Host Institution: UWF

In Collections