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Banquet to celebrate LA & SG Valley RR at Pasadena

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Description
A long table decorated with garlands and grapes is set up under a trellis roofed structure for a banquet on September 16, 1885, in Pasadena, California, to celebrate the opening of the line of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad. Several women in light colored dresses stand along either side, some holding plates of food. Many other men and women are gathered under the structure facing camera.
Type
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Date
1885
Call number
photPF 567
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