Image / Horses pull the parade floats in the Turlock Melon Carnival of 1911

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Title: Horses pull the parade floats in the Turlock Melon Carnival of 1911
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: A parade was one of the events of the first Melon Carnival held in 1911 in Turlock, California. In this photograph horses are used to pull the "floats" down East Main Street and across the railroad tracks to West Main Street. To the left, people stop to watch, including a boy wearing knickers which was the style of this time period. Verso: Lundquist driver.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; 9 x 14 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3199q8b7
cturs_051
Language: English
Subject: Carnival floats
Fairs--California--Turlock
Parade floats
Parades--California--Turlock
Melon Carnival (Turlock, Calif.)
Place: Turlock (Calif.)

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