Comet float in the Shriner's electrical parade, ca.1910

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Photograph of a comet float in the Shriner's electrical parade, ca.1910. The large float can be seen at center and resembles a shooting star. A large star adorned with small lightbulbs can be sen at right, while long tails extend towards the back of the float at left. Several women can be seen sitting under the comet's trail, while more can be seen sitting on top of it. Smaller stars decorated the sides of the float.

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Title Comet float in the Shriner's electrical parade, ca.1910

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910

Subject Festivals -- Rose Parade -- Shriners convention (file heading), Parade floats (lcsh), Parades (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11273

Identifier 33022 (accession number), CHS-33022 (call number), CHS-33022 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10695 (legacy record id), chs-m11273 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11423 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10695

Unique identifier UC118054

Legacy Identifier CHS-33022.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.3 in × 8.4 in at 300dpi
26.3 cm × 21.5 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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