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Description
This float, called "Queen Violet Ray," has a huge circle in which green, white and violet flowers in the rear form the throne for Queen Violet Ray and her two attendents. Two female attendents in shorts are on either side of the the queen. In front of the queen are three women in black bathing suits with three men dressed in a mariachi-style costumes facing the women and are playing guitars. There is a house and crowds of people in the background.
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image
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image/jpeg2000 Scanned with Epson Perfection V500 Photo Scanner as a 800 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed to 8-bit and JPEG format using Photoshop CS2.
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