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Description
View of a crowd standing around a cannon on May Day. The cannon is pointed towards the right of the image. Leon Harthorn is lighting the fuse of the cannon. Harthorn is wearing a top hat and dark suit. Vehicles and palm trees visible in background. Museum records indicate that the cannon is a captured German cannon. Lighting the cannon during the May Day celebration was Fillmore tradition.
Type
image
Format
Black and white photograph 12.5 x 18 cm
Identifier
9690
Language
English
Subject
Artillery Fillmore (Calif.)--Social life and customs Harthorn, Leon
Place
California Ventura County (Calif.) Fillmore (Calif.)
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