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Title
Mardi Gras Festival Parade, Venice, California
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a Mardi Gras Festival parade along the Windward Avenue colonnades at Venice in Los Angeles, California. Signs along the parade route read "Undercover Doctor" and "They all come out" on a movie marquee, "Plaza," "The Horseshoe," "Chop Suey Cafe," "California Theatre," and "Mardi Gras Festival." A float in the parade reads "the cornerstone of Elkdom is patriotism, fidelity, [charity?]," with a girl, young women, and an Elks member wearing a fez.
"Venice"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on history of the movies "Undercover Doctor" and "They all come out," which were released in 1939.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 20.2 x 25.4 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20057
Subject
Elks (Fraternal order)
Fraternal organizations
Mardi Gras
Parade floats
Parades
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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