Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Mexican clowns, or maromeros, performing on Mexican Independence Day in the back of the Leoniso Parra adobe in San Juan Capistrano, September 16, 1900. A group of assorted men and women is lined up around a blanket on which a man in a strange costume is sitting. A guitarist and a violinist are performing at left. In the center, the sailor with white pants is Andre Garcia the man dressed as an Indian is Celestino Martinez the man with his hand upraised is Juan Vallas hidden in the ramada for the circus the woman on the right of A. Garcia is Josefa Oliones the woman on the immediate right is Felicidad Yorba de Aguilar seated is Fernando Placencia Guitarist is Delfin Sere a mestizo the violinist is Juan Lobo. Text at bottom of photograph reads: "From earliest days circuses from Mexico toured California. This one is shown at the town of San Juan Capistrano in 1900".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs
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