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Callas to decorate arch for Roosevelt

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Description: A group of children stand next to a residence in Pasadena, California, amid dozens of cut calla lilies to be used to decorate an arch for the visit of United States President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. Some hold bunches of the flowers.
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Date: 1903
Call number: photPF 23788
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