Visual Materials

President Woodrow Wilson in car during a parade in Los Angeles, California

Description: Image of President Woodrow Wilson, wearing a top hat, and his wife Edith Wilson in an automobile decorated with flower arrangements and American flags, surrounded by Secret Service officers, during a parade through downtown Los Angeles, California, on September 20, 1919, with crowds on the sidewalk including photographers with cameras. The Stetson-Barret Co. wholesale grocer manufacturing building is in the background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: September 20, 1919
Call number: photCL_555_05_160
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Military parade on Broadway in Los Angeles, California

Visual Materials

Image of crowds on the sidewalk watching soldiers in military uniforms walk down the 700 block of South Broadway during a parade in downtown Los Angeles, California, with automobiles and streetcars in the background. Visible storefront signs include "Millinery Center North Bldg.," "Graysons," "Leed's," "Woolworth," and "Pig n' Whistle."

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July 4th military parade on Broadway, Los Angeles, California

Visual Materials

Image of men in military uniforms with rifles in formation crossing 7th Street while walking down South Broadway during a parade of military and civilian defense units in downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 4, 1942. Visible storefront signs include "Millinery Center North Bldg.," "Leed's," "Woolworth," "Loew's State," with the theater marquee advertising: "Sothern-Skelton 'Maise Gets Her Man,' MacDonald Eddy, ' I married an Angel,'" with flags and a banner: "Enjoy a safe and sane 4 July Coliseum."

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2nd & Spring Streets, Columbus Day Parade Oct. 21, 1892, Los Angeles

Visual Materials

A view of a street congested with spectators, cariages and trolley cars. Many American flags are held by the spectators.

photCL Pierce 00522

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Ruth Wilson Patton. Letter to Annie Wilson. Los Angeles, California

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

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[Ruth Wilson Patton]. Letter to Annie Wilson. [Los Angeles, California]

Manuscripts

WN 719.

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[Ruth Wilson Patton]. Letter to Annie Wilson. [Los Angeles, California]

Manuscripts

WN 715.

President Woodrow Wilson in car during a parade in Los Angeles, California

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