Manuscripts
La Fiesta De Los Angeles
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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Centennial
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8 items: seven sets of copied material, Los Angeles Herald stories from first week of 9/1881 (three months prior to the L.A. Times' debut) noting the city's centennial ; copy of Lee Shippey's LAT column of 6/10/1931, on upcoming "La Fiesta de Los Angeles."
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La Fiesta de los Angeles
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Includes buttons, tickets, invitations, notes, and other ephemera relating to La Fiesta de Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles - Anniversaries - Bicentennial
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Approx. 20 items: L.A.'s the Place Master Calendar, 9/1980 - 9/1981 ; several issues of the Los Angeles Bicentennial Bulletins, from Publications Dept. of Auto Club of Southern California ; large stapled stack of legal size sheets, with info and dates, top sheet headed "LA 200 Bicentennial Committee...ACKNOWLEGEMENTS" ; folder of promo. material for LA / ACCESS, The Official Los Angeles Guidebook, published in 1980 in preparation for the 200th ; related materials.
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Los Angeles - County
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"The Official Program for the Fiesta de Los Angeles for 1895," cover missing and corners torn, includes photographs of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities, drawings of the floats, and many advertisements, 1895; "The Los Angeles Tourist: A Book for the Traveler and Pleasure Seeker," Volume I, number 4, likely published by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce," October 1909; "Los Angeles City and County, Exposition Number," issued by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, revised for the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 1915; "Since You Were Here Before: A Souvenir of the Fifty-Second Annual Convention of the American Bankers Association," prepared and printed by the Security Trust & Savings Bank, Los Angeles, 1926; "Los Angeles County California," issued by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1928
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La Fiesta de Los Angeles photographs and commemorative pin
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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.
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Mexican caballeros, La Fiesta de Los Angeles
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A view of charros/caballeros riding in La Fiesta with throngs of spectators on either side.
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