Living tableau of the American Flag with forty-five stars, Boston Common, Aug. 16, 1904

Description

Over two thousand girls and boys from Boston, Massachusetts form a "living flag" on grandstands, 120 by 60 feet, at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic on the Tremont Street Mall of Boston Common opposite Temple Place on August 16, 1904. The school children are dressed in red, white, and blue and are arranged into the 13 stripes and a field of blue holding 45 white stars. A huge crowd of people look at this spectacle. Madame May's beauty shop can be seen on the second floor of 7 Temple Place. As the veterans of the Civil War paraded past, the children sang songs, such as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Mrs. Lue Stuart Wadsworth organized the "living flag" event.