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Description
Real photo postcard of KKK float in Cotton Carnival parade held in Galveston, Texas on July 25, 1913. The horse-drawn allegorical float consists of a white man and woman in formal attire standing in a colonnaded representation of "heaven on earth" with bags of treasure at their feet, while three African American men in white robes walk at street level guiding the horses. The horses are draped in white cloth with "KKK" emblasoned on the side. A young African American man in regular clothing stands in the foreground. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Still image Title and and date of production from caption in negative. With ink notation written on image: "This is one of the floats they had in the carnival parade that was held here July 25."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black and white ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
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