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Title: Desert Circus celebration in Palm Springs
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Palm Springs street scene, showing costumed participants re-enacting a stagecoach robbery, or "hold-up," during the city's Desert Circus, an annual festival which celebrates the ways of the Old West. Photograph dated March 18, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 22 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094560
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022625
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29458
Subject: Desert Circus (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Celebrations--California--Palm Springs
Streets--California--Palm Springs
Americans--Clothing--19th century
Native Americans--Clothing
Stagecoaches--California--Palm Springs
Reconstructions--California--Palm Springs
Stores & shops--California--Palm Springs
Horses--California--Palm Springs
Palm Springs (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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