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Title: Ygnacia Bonaficio impersonator
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photographs was edited for publication purposes.
The California Women of the Golden West presented a pageant on May 20, 1932, in which they impersonated famous women of the state's history. Mrs. Morris J. Thompson portrays Ygnacia Bonaficio, "Sherman's Rose." The story goes that Gen. Sherman loved her and left her a rose when he went to war, and that she planted it and it grew, at Monterey. It is said she was madly in love with him and died of a broken heart as she never heard from him again.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057095
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1783
CARL0000061264
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22228
Subject: Bonaficio, Ygnacia
Sherman, William T.--(William Tecumseh),--1820-1891--Friends and associates
California Women of the Golden West
Women
Costumes
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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