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Felipe Delgado as Felipe De Neve at the opening of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Felipe Delgado as Felipe De Neve at the opening of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: September 4, 1931
1931-09-04
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
A man in period costume reads from a scroll before a microphone at La Fiesta Plaza. Behind him are men and children in period costume as well, two of them dressed as colonial missionaries.
Felipe Delgado, dressed as Don Felipe de Neve, reenacts the naming of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles on September 4, 1781. Surrounding him are folks representing Los Pobladores, the group of forty-four Spanish settlers. The event took place at La Plaza at Olvera Street.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Drama of City’s Birth Enacted Anew,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep 1931: A1.
Handwritten on negative: La Fiesta Plaza
Text from negative sleeve: Parade La Fiesta no contacts Sept. 1931 not printed 8/79
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2537
ark:/21198/zz002dcb1b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Commemorations--California--Los Angeles
Fiesta de Los Angeles
Delgado, Felipe
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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