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Title: Children in the parade of the 1911 Turlock Melon Carnival
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1911
Publication Information: California State University, Stanislaus. University Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: California State University, Stanislaus. Library
Collection: Stanislaus Region History and Culture Image Collection
Rights Information: Public domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: The Ladies Improvement Association was represented in the Melon Carnival parade of 1911, in Turlock, California by a "float" pulled by children. Some of the improvements the women's group achieved for the community were: a library, the cemetery fenced, Broadway Park and a drinking fountain.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print; 15 x 24 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt196nc7v5
cturs_050
Language: English
Subject: Fairs--California--Turlock
Parades--California--Turlock
Farr, Eugene
Farr, Joyce
Fiorini, Dorothy Smith
Ladies Improvement Association (Turlock, Calif.)
Markley, Gertrude Smith
Melon Carnival (Turlock, Calif.)
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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