Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph is likely related to the article, “Drama of City’s Birth Enacted Anew,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep 1931: A1. 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. A man in period costume holds a scroll in one hand and his hat in another, pointed toward his right. Behind him are men and children in period costume as well, two of them dressed as colonial missionaries. 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_2540 ark:/21198/zz002dcb4w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Commemorations--California--Los Angeles Fiesta de Los Angeles Delgado, Felipe
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