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Women representing Canada and Mexico shaking hands at the Roosevelt Highway Dedication, Sycamore Canyon, Malibu

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Title: Women representing Canada and Mexico shaking hands at the Roosevelt Highway Dedication, Sycamore Canyon, Malibu
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929-06-29
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 crowd of onlookers watching two women, representing Canada and Mexico, sit on top of the hoods of automobiles and shake hands with each other at the Roosevelt Highway Dedication ceremony at Sycamore Canyon in Malibu, California. The women have sashes that read "Miss Canada" and "Miss Mexico" (representing the joining of Canada and Mexico via the highway).
Title and date transcribed from information on envelope in which negative was received: "6/29/1929 Santa Monica, Roosevelt Highway Dedication, Sycamore Canyon." The Roosevelt Highway eventually becomes the Pacific Coast Highway.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.1 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487894
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17528
Subject: Pacific Coast Highway
Automobiles
Dedications
Rites and ceremonies
Roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Malibu (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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