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Title: Watts Queen gets corsage
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1967
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Mayor Sam Yorty pins flowers on smiling Veronica Hayes, Queen of Watts Festival, during a luncheon in her honor at City Hall. Festival began Monday and will end Sunday with a parade, starting at Manchester Boulevard and Central Avenue.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036512
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7305
CARL0000039566
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11704
Subject: Yorty, Sam,--1909-1998
Watts Festival
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Corsages--California--Los Angeles
Luncheons--California--Los Angeles
Festivals--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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