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Los Angeles Flower Festival Society records
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Los Angeles Flower Festival Society records
Manuscripts
The records contain 11 folders in 1 box. The largest folder has 43 items while three folders each have only 1 item. The inclusive dates are 1885-1891. The records include correspondence, festival & fair programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, a notebook, a list of donations, and other documents about the Flower Festival Society. The folders are arranged in chronological order. The items in each folder, whenever possible, are also arranged chronologically. The records provide a unique perspective to view California women's history and leisure activities at the end of the nineteenth century. In addition, newspaper clippings about the Chrysanthemum Fair include some women's favorable perceptions of Japanese and Chinese art and culture. Subjects in the records include Arrowhead Springs (Calif.), Chinese Art objects, Chinese culture & civilization, Chrysanthemums China, Chrysanthemums Japan, Japanese Art objects, Los Angeles times, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, and the YMCA of the USA.
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Santa Barbara Flower Festival photograph album
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A collection of 24 commercial photographs of the Santa Barbara Flower Festival of 1895, in Santa Barbara, California. Most of the photographs feature horse-drawn carts or carriages decorated as floats with flowers and other greenery, with a few images of the streets of Santa Barbara decorated for the festival and children picking flowers. The photographer, presumably, is N.H. Reed, whose book of published images, "Souvenir of Santa Barbara Flower Festival. Photo-Gravures" (1895), includes both similar and some of the same images found in this collection.
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Dragon parade, Moon Festival, Los Angeles
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Image of a dragon parade at night. Banner hanging on the street reads: Moon Festival / auspices Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Ass'n / benefit United China Relief / Aug. 7-8-9.
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Bouquet of flowers from Briggs & Brother, seedsmen. Rochester, N.Y. 1871
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Image of a large bouquet of flowers, including chrysanthemums, pansies, marigolds, and carnations; numerical key with full list of flower varieties at left.
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Photographs of the Feast of the Dead festival in Los Angeles' Chinatown, 1902 October
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Nine photographic postcards documenting the Chinese community's Feast of the Dead festival in Los Angeles' Old Chinatown, October, 1902. The religious celebration invoked Taoist rituals to honor the dead, and was popularly called the Feast of the Dead, though other translations may be Ta Chiu festival or Dajiao festival. The event took place every three years in Los Angeles' Chinatown, and lasted several days. The images depict Chinese participants in traditional and festive dress; children in decorated carts; men carrying puppets or effigies; and a procession carrying a long paper dragon. Crowds are seen gathered around the Los Angeles Plaza area, and one image shows a group carrying Chinese banners and the American flag.
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