Los Angeles Fiesta float, showing riders in Japanese costumes, 1902

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Photograph of a Los Angeles Fiesta float, showing riders in Japanese costumes, 1902. A wagon covered in wild mustard stands on a street in the center while people wearing kimonos and holding Japanese style umbrellas sit inside. The backside of a darkly colored horse is visible at left while lightly colored horses with tall headdresses can be seen at right. Trees can be seen in the left background while houses are visible at right. Photoprint reads "This tally-ho is decorated in wild mustard (a yellow spray about, the color of powdered mustard) the spokes are trimmed in smilax and the large flowers are wild sunflowers. A japanese beauty".

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Title Los Angeles Fiesta float, showing riders in Japanese costumes, 1902

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1902

Subject Festivals (lcsh), Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- 1902 (file heading), Parades (lcsh), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1902

Type images

Format 1photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m10759

Identifier 33005 (accession number), CHS-33005 (call number), CHS-33005 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16975 (legacy record id), chs-m10759 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10908 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16975

Unique identifier UC141456

Legacy Identifier CHS-33005.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
57.2 cm × 42.3 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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