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 throngs of people crowding the streets (east Fifth Street?) to welcome the arrival of President William McKinley for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1901. An American flag hangs prominently from a line strung across the street. Two horse-drawn carriages are driving down the middle of the street. Some people are perched on roofs of adjacent buildings. Legible signs include: "Atlas Mills, wholesale dealers in all kinds of grain, rolled barley, wheat, oats, cracked corn & c., Pride of the Valley Flour our specialty, Red Texas Oats", ..."e & Zob[...] [...]er [...] La"..., ..."City [...]hing"..., ..."May 6"..., "We sell Bur's", ..."Martin", ..."eld-Tea syrup", "Dr. Abbot makes the blind see, the deaf hear"... "Catar"..., "La Fiesta[...] de flores"..., ..."150 S. Main".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 13 x 18 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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