Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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
Card photographs by photographer W.H. Fletcher depicting various decorated horse-drawn floats and participants in the La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade in Los Angeles, California, circa 1895 and 1896. Includes images of floats for the cities of Pasadena and Fresno, the Board of Trade, the East Side Chemical Engine Company No. 3, the Mt. Lowe Railway (with the Anchor Laundry at 719 S. Los Angeles St. in the background), a view of a Chinese dragon, and other flower-bedecked carriages with participants, including groups of women with parasols and one with a banner labeled "Mexico 1800." There is also a picture of a woman standing on a horse.
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Image of a crowd of people, including men with musical instruments and wearing sombreros, watching a man and a woman wearing Mexican style costumes dance in a Spanish-Mexican dance contest at La Fiesta de Los Angeles on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
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Manuscripts
1 item: original of "La Fiesta de Los Angeles, Official Program," date "1931" penciled in at top of cover.
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A view of a street with carriages, a band, horsemen and spectators.
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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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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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