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People gather to celebrate at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission, Los Angeles, 1922

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Title: People gather to celebrate at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created and/or Issued: July 4, 1922
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A long path is cleared in front of a wall with stone arches. Flags and lights float above the path, and throngs of people stand to the sides.
Photograph appears with the article, "Celebration at Mission," Los Angeles Times, 05 July 1922: I16.
More than 4000 persons attended the celebration to dedicate the Sacred Garden and the great fountain donated by Leslie O. Brand.
Text from negative sleeve: Missions, San Fernando nitrates
Text from newspaper caption: San Fernando in Festival Garb Above, the San Fernando Mission frontage on Brand Boulevard. Below, at the barbecue, where thousands were entertained. At bottom, Domingo Felix and Herlinda Loredo in a dance of old Spain.
Handwritten on negative: San Fernando Mission
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6397
ark:/21198/zz002cwm63
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Flags--American
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Fourth of July celebrations--California--Los Angeles County
Missions--California--Los Angeles
San Fernando, Rey de España (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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