Manuscripts
La Fiesta de los Angeles, notes
You might also be interested in
Image not available
La Fiesta de Los Angeles, notes
Manuscripts
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.
mssBehymer
Image not available
La Fiesta De Los Angeles
Manuscripts
1 item: original of "La Fiesta de Los Angeles, Official Program," date "1931" penciled in at top of cover.
mssLAT
Image not available
La Fiesta programs
Manuscripts
Programs from La Fiesta de Los Angeles along with "Views of Historic and Literary Concord" (a series of photographs) and "The Thousand Islands" (a series of photographs). There is also a souvenier program for the grand opening of the Mason Opera House in Los Angeles.
mssBehymer
Image not available
La Fiesta de Los Angeles photographs and commemorative pin
Visual Materials
9 cabinet cards depicting decorated floats moving through the streets of Los Angeles, California, for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade in 1895 and 1896, including images of horse-drawn coaches and wagons decorated with flowers and carrying participants, often groups of women with parasols. Parade floats include one holding children wearing long beards and dressed in traditional Chinese costume; a scene of Spanish mission bells; and another includes an equestrian on horseback. Photographs accompanied by a metal pin engraved with the text "La Fiesta 1896" and a scene of a float, a sombrero labeled "Los Angeles" and two shaking hands.
photPF 20247-20256
La Fiesta de Los Angeles, Spanish-Mexican dance contest, Olvera St., Los Angeles, Calif
Visual Materials
Image of a crowd of people, including men with musical instruments and wearing sombreros, watching a man and a woman wearing Mexican style costumes dance in a Spanish-Mexican dance contest at La Fiesta de Los Angeles on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
photCL_555_06_1661
The Times Los Angeles Fiesta Number Los Angeles, April 25, 1897
Visual Materials
Image of a man dressed in Mexican ethnic costume on horseback with arm outstretched; flowers in the air and underfoot give a festive atmosphere to the scene printed on the cover of a special Los Angeles Times Fiesta Number issue commemorating La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a great Southern California carnival held in the spring of 1897.
priJLC_FAIR_001698