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La Fiesta programs
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La Fiesta de Los Angeles, notes
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Materials in Box 262, Folders 1-4 were previously disbound from a volume labeled "La Fiesta de Los Angeles, notes 1897" by Huntington Library staff in the mid-20th century. Remainder of disbound album is housed in Box 34, Folders 8-9. Includes programs for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, with photographs of actors and actresses and news clippings.
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La Fiesta de los Angeles, notes
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Materials in Box 34, Folder 8-9 were previously separated from a disbound volume labeled "La Fiesta de Los Angeles, notes 1897" by Huntington Library staff in the mid-20th century. Remainder of disbound album is housed in Box 262, Folders 1-4. Includes buttons, tickets, invitations, notes, and other ephemera relating to La Fiesta de Los Angeles.
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Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles Theatres
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La Fiesta de Los Angeles (also known as La Fiesta de Las Flores) – programs
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A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).
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