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 horse-drawn wagon decorated with flowers (Ladies Phaeton) standing at the curb for La Fiesta de Los Angeles. Small crowd of people (including at least one person riding a horse) in the background. Image described variously as either: "The entry of the Friday Morning Club for the La Fiesta de Los Angeles... Ladies flower decorated Phaeton, driven by Miss Elizabeth Fremont, with Mrs. Rebecca Douglass Lowe, President of the State Women's Parliment." (May 1902) or: "L.A. Fiesta -- 1st -- 1897 -- Daisy Bell (Mrs. Charles Parshal Overton) driving Lillian Bell (Mrs. John Grey) at right... Daughters of Major Horace Bell -- L.A. Fiesta Queen -- Mrs. Modini Wood -- Phaeton decorated with white roses, sewed to white cloth -- won 1st prize of $25.00 and blue banner." (from a letter written by Mrs. Overton, 18 January 1950).
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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