Float at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, ca.1902

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Photograph of a float at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, ca.1902. A car covered in what seems to be lilies is shown at center, filled with women in lightly-colored dresses who hold parasols. The dirt road beneath is visible in the foreground while a sidewalk and picket fence can be seen behind the float. Back of photoprint reads "Lillies, the pampas plumes are white. Roses on the upper part of the automobile, smilax on the wheels".

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Title Float at La Fiesta de Los Angeles, ca.1902

Subject Festivals (lcsh), Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- 1901 (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 1 photograph : 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)

Date Created 1902

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10758

Identifier 40483 (accession number), CHS-40483 (call number), CHS-40483 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16974 (legacy record id), chs-m10758 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10907 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16974

Unique identifier UC141455

Legacy Identifier CHS-40483.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 16.9 in at 300dpi
57.1 cm × 43.0 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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