Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The California Pacific International Exposition has honored programs twenty years later at the organ amphitheater for the 1915 exposition. Photograph appears with the article, "Fair Honors 1915 Board," Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct 1935: 2. Jane Priscilla Sousa, granddaughter of composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa, smiles as she holds a marching band baton. Handwritten on negative: Priscilla Sousa - grd. Dau. of Phillips 11-7-35 Text from negative sleeve: 2747 - Priscilla Sousa grd. Dau of Phillips Sousa 11- 7-35 [stamped:] Nov 11 1935 Text from newspaper caption: Strike up the band! No one has a better right to glorify band music than pretty Miss Priscilla Sousa pictured here, who led massed bands at the California Pacific International Exposition as they played "Stars and Stripes Forever," in honor of her illustrious grandfather, John Philip Sousa.
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9263 ark:/21198/zz002dh988
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No linguistic content
Subject
Musical instruments--California--San Diego Family members--American--California--San Diego California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.) Gillon, Jane Priscilla Sousa, 1917-1989
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