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Visual Materials
La Fiesta de Los Angeles photographs and commemorative pin
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- Description
- 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.
- Production date
- 1895-1896.
- Call number
- photPF 20247-20256
- Creator
- Fletcher, W. H
