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Order of procession, in honor of the establishment of the Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, July 1788.
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A list of the grand parade procession order.

Credit: American Memory, Library of Congress

To celebrate ratification of the Constitution, a Committee of Arrangement, chaired by Declaration of Independence signer Francis Hopkinson, organized a grand parade in Philadelphia on July 4, 1788. The celebrations also included a parade of ten ships, which illuminated the Delaware River waterfront that evening.

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