A parade float of the Santa Monica chapter of the Native Sons of the Golden West depicts the "Conversion of the Indians by the Franciscan Fathers". The building in the distance is the Miramar Hotel (later the Fairmont Miramar), located at Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica.
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