McKinley Junior High School students in costume on float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925
US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Float decorated as the mythical land of Ophir, with about 12 costumed students riding, 3 walking ahead, on coliseum track with audience in background Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1925, “California the Golden” Notable Achievement, Spectacle of Schools Depicting History of State Acclaimed by Visiting Shriners. The public schools’ contribution to the Shrine entertainment, “California the Golden” … "The Gold of Ophir," McKinley Junior High School ... Handwritten at edge of negative: School Kids Parade, Coliseum 1925, Shrine Convention Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shriners, Parade, 1925
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3101 ark:/21198/zz002cmrk4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Youth Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles Culture Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles Costumes Ophir in art Events Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America McKinley Junior High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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