View 16 (upper right) shows a group of men, women and children in period costume looking on as a couple re-enacts a marriage. A horse-drawn covered wagon is visible on the right. View 17 (lower right) shows a troupe of women in various period costumes standing outside a covered wagon. View 18 (left) shows a woman in old western clothing holding a flying on which a drawing of a covered wagon is depicted. The flyer reads, "Confirming President Hoover's proclamation to the American people commemorating the 100th anniversary of the pioneers who journeyed west from St. Louis, Mo. April 10th to December 19th, 1830 arriving at their destination Oregon and California--to their memory. This picture in colors thirty four feet long by twleve feet wide, for your inspection and edification, has been reproduced in a terrazzo sidewalk and which consists of twenty seven colors of imported italian marble and is seventy seven feet long over all in front of Pioneer Public Market 1436-1447 Third Street Santa Monica."
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