Image / May Festival Parade, Merrill's Ranch Market Float, Orange, California, 1940-1950

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Title: May Festival Parade, Merrill's Ranch Market Float, Orange, California, 1940-1950
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940:1950
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: May Festival Parade, Merrill's Ranch Market Float, Orange, California, 1940-1950. Image shows several women employees wearing bonnets and farm dresses riding in a horse-drawn wagon at the corner of Chapman Avenue and Orange Street. Reggie and wife Irene Merrill are sitting in the driver's seat. Signage on side of wagon reads "IF YER LOOKIN' FER STUFF TO EAT / MERRILL'S Ranch MARKET / JUSET CAIN'T BE BEAT!" Crowds are visible in background on the sidewalk and peering from windows of Elks Lodge building.
Photographic print
B&w
20.2 x 25.4 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0b69p2w6
P1539
10512104
Language: English
Subject: Festivals
Parades & processions
May Festival--Orange (Calif.)
Merrill, Reginald Field
Merrill, Irene Blower

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