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Title
May company building decorated for Shriner's electrical parade, ca.1910
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of May company building decorated for Shriner's electrical parade, ca.1910. A large building with windows covering each side is visible at center. In the night light, the streets below look like a stream of light as lines of light dance across the bottom. The columns at the street level are decorated with big lights. A large column to the right of center stand above the rest with a star at the apex and a clock encircled with lights. The initals "B.P.O.E" are written all over this column.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11275
USC-1-1-1-11425 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33016
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11275
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33016.jpg
Subject
Festivals and parades--Rose Parade--Shriners convention
May Company
Parades
Parade floats
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1910
Place
Broadway
California
Los Angeles
Pasadena
USA
Source
33016 [Accession number]
CHS-33016 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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