- Collection:
- Roddenbery Memorial Library Collection
- Title:
- Photograph of Armistice Day celebrations, Cairo, Georgia, 1918 November 11
- Date of Original:
- 1918-11-11
- Subject:
- Cairo (Ga.)--History
Flags--Georgia--Cairo
Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Cairo
Armistice Day--Georgia--Cairo
Governors--Georgia
Executions in effigy--Georgia--Cairo
World War, 1914-1918--Georgia--Cairo - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Grady County, Cairo, 30.87751, -84.20214
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Photograph of Armistice Day celebrations, Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, 1918 November 11. This picture was taken at a celebration to mark the end of World War I hostilities with the armistice. The German Kaiser is being burned in effigy, while young future Georgia Governor E.D. Rivers (man on right with derby hat and Bible) presides over the Kaiserands "funeral." The man to the left of Rivers is T. Aden Powell.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:zhj_zhj_zhj258
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/roddenbery/do:zhj258
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Roddenbery Memorial Library
- Rights:
-
