Shriners Float from La Fiesta in Los Angeles, ca.1906

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Photograph of a Shriners Float from La Fiesta in Los Angeles, ca.1906. A woman in a light-colored dress sits at the helm of an automobiles that has been decorated to the point that only the wheels still show; a wooden framework rests on top of a bed of what appear to be fern fronds. Light-colored roses gild it along its edges and on decorative plaques that have been hung from the side. A figurine approximately two feet high appears to be either a scarecrow or a gingerbread man, and is positioned towards the back of the float. Finally, a sun-like ornament has been affixed to the top of the wooden frame. Diaphanous ribbons extend from it like a maypole. The card on the float reads "B8". A house is visible in the background beyond the sidewalk and trees. Horse manure is visible in the paved street.

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Title Shriners Float from La Fiesta in Los Angeles, ca.1906

Subject Festivals and parades -- La Fiesta -- 1906 (file heading), La Fiesta de Los Angeles (subject), Parades (lcsh), Shriners (subject), transportation features (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1906

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-m11028

Identifier 7551 (accession number), CHS-7551 (call number), CHS-7551 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10456 (legacy record id), chs-m11028 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11178 (legacy record id), 1- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10456

Unique identifier UC140547

Legacy Identifier CHS-7551.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.8 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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