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Title: Desert Circus parade
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Desert Circus was a festival in Palm Springs held annually to celebrate the ways of the Old West.
Photograph caption dated April 26, 1954 reads, "Walt Disney (left) waves from stagecoach as he rides at head of the procession in the Desert Circus parade in Palm Springs. He was grand marshall. Palm Springs was jammed with visitors over the weekend, attracted by Circus activities."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094566
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022841
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28958
Subject: Disney, Walt,--1901-1966
Desert Circus (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Celebrations--California--Palm Springs
Motion picture producers and directors--United States
Animators--United States
Parades--California--Palm Springs
Stagecoaches--California--Palm Springs
Americans--Clothing--19th century
Palm Springs (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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