Camera club float at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1901

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Photograph of the Los Angeles Camera Club float entry -- a flower-bedecked wagon filled with about a dozen women and male driver (including Miss Stephens? & Mr. Forbes?) being pulled by a 7-horse team -- on Hill Street near Fourth Street during the Los Angeles Fiesta 1901. A few people are standing on the adjacent sidewalk. At left is a 2-story Victorian house. Directly beside the float is the 3-story brick "Wright & Callender Building". A picture of President McKinley and American flags are visible in the ground floor windows. Legible signs include: "Doctor Helen O. Anderson", "Dr. Townsend, dentist", ..."a club".

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Title Camera club float at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1901

Subject Festivals (lcsh), Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- 1901 (file heading), Los Angeles Camera Club (subject), Parades (lcsh), Photographers (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hill Street (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1901

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1901

Contributor Tipton, Mrs. (donor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10739

Identifier 1506 (accession number), CHS-1506 (call number), CHS-1506 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16956 (legacy record id), chs-m10739 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10888 (legacy record id), 1-121-22 (microfiche number), 1-5-6 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16956

Unique identifier UC141769

Legacy Identifier CHS-1506.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 32.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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