Image / Gabriela Quiroz crowned Queen of the Fiesta, San Gabriel, 1935

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Title: Gabriela Quiroz crowned Queen of the Fiesta, San Gabriel, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 7, 1935
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A series of special events and entertainment including parades, music, and a coronation ceremony honoring the King and Queen of the festival - Thomas W. Temple and Gabriela Quiroz are some events of the three-day festival marking the Old Mission's 164th birthday anniversary.
Mayor Glenn Evans, with a hat hanging from his arm, places a crown on Queen of the fiesta, Gabriela Quiroz. Her court and princesses pose for the photograph beside her.
Text from negative sleeve: 2050 -- Preview of crowning by mayor Glenn Evans of Gabriel [sic] Quiroz as Queen. San Gabriel Fiesta 9-7-35 [stmaped:] SEP 18 1935
Handwritten on negative: Mayor Glenn Evans, Gabriel [sic] Quiroz
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8421
ark:/21198/zz002dg979
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Children--California--San Gabriel
Anniversaries--California--San Gabriel
Festivals--California--San Gabriel
Quiroz, Gabriela, 1909-2006
Evans, Glenn E., b. 1893
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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