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San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
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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Image of United States President William McKinley (sitting at left next to an unidentified man) in a horse-drawn buggy decorated in roses and driven by two men in sombreros and entering Santa Barbara, California, with a crowd of spectators and a palm grove in the background.
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Image of a Mardi Gras Festival parade along the Windward Avenue colonnades at Venice in Los Angeles, California. Signs along the parade route read "Undercover Doctor" and "They all come out" on a movie marquee, "Plaza," "The Horseshoe," "Chop Suey Cafe," "California Theatre," and "Mardi Gras Festival." A float in the parade reads "the cornerstone of Elkdom is patriotism, fidelity, [charity?]," with a girl, young women, and an Elks member wearing a fez.
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Image of a woman with a baby in a float decorated with flowers at the Ocean Park Baby Parade in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. A sign on the side reads "Baby buggy."
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View of a line of men carrying a Chinese Dragon during the La Fiesta parade on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the storefront of the Ville de Paris (221 South Broadway) behind a crowd of spectators.
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Image of a girl pulling and another girl sitting on a float decorated in pine cones and flowers at the Ocean Park Baby Parade in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. The float has a sign advertising "Alice Brown School of the Dance."
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