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Carriage with an African American coach driver and four young white women in a floral parade float, 1890-1910

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Title: Carriage with an African American coach driver and four young white women in a floral parade float, 1890-1910
Alternative Title: Parades in Early Black Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: [1890-1910]
1890/1910
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Parade with an African American coach driver dressed in a white suit and top hat driving a floral, horse-drawn carriage. Four white women in white dresses and sun bonnets ride along. There is a multi-story commercial building in the background which may be a storefront church with signs reading "Godless [...]," "Behold he Come [...] Jesus / [Every] eye shall see [...] also which pierce." The partial face of a horse to the left.
Written on back of photo: Credit: Sec Pac. National Bank Photo Coll/ L.A. Pub library.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b17_f08_006a.tif
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Subject: Coach drivers
Parades & processions
African American men
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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