Image / American Legion float in the Ocean Park Baby Parade

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Title: American Legion float in the Ocean Park Baby Parade
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a girl with a gown and a star hat, presumably representing Columbia, standing in a model of a battlefield for the American Legion float at the Ocean Park Baby Parade in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. There is a sign hanging on the front of the float that reads "Venice of America Post 177 American Legion." The float has toy army figurines and gravestones that read:"Unknown soldiers" and "to the Gold Star Mothers." The float to the left has the sign "Peter Peter."
Title devised by cataloger; date based on information on envelope in which negative was received: "Santa Monica, Ocean Park Baby Parade, 1930."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487876
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17510
Subject: American Legion
Ocean Park Baby Parade (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Children
Columbia (Symbolic character)
Parade floats
Parades
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Ocean Park (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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