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Title
Parade with a cactus-shaped float, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a parade with a cactus-shaped float, ca.1920. A large float shaped like a barrel cactus is pictured at center, followed by an indistinct second float in the right background. To the left, a crowd has gathered along the street and sits on the curb to watch the parade. Two men can be seen standing atop the leftmost roof, while in the center of the street, an American flag can be seen suspended from a wire overhead.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
9 x 15 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12667
USC-0-1-1-12820 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40462
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12667
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40462.jpg
Subject
Festivals and parades--General
Parades
Festivals
Flags
Roadways
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
USA
Source
40462 [Accession number]
CHS-40462 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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