Over 6,000 people marched in Seattle's 1938 Independence Day parade. Military units and civic groups marched down Second Avenue to Yesler Way, then up to Fourth Avenue and back to Virginia Street. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer estimated that tens of thousands of spectators crowded the downtown area, standing 10 to 20 deep along the parade route.

Here, American flags hang from the buildings along Second Avenue while men in military uniform march past in the Independence Day parade.

Handwritten on negative: Parade 4th July 1938

Caption information source: "Parade Highlights City's Celebration of a Gala Fourth," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 5, 1938, p. A1