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McKinley Junior High School students in costume on float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

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Title: McKinley Junior High School students in costume on float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: June 5, 1925
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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) 825-2222
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 ...
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shriners, Parade, 1925
Handwritten at edge of negative: School Kids Parade, Coliseum 1925, Shrine Convention
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 3101
uclamss_1429_3101
ark:/21198/zz002cmrk4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Culture
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Youth
Ophir in art
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Events
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McKinley Junior High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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