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Title: Decorated float carrying Catholic girls Calexico (?), 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: circa March 1, 1939
1939-03-01
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Fifteen visible girls, wearing festive dresses, some with sashes with lettering, and one dressed as the Lady of Guadalupe (?), on a float on a float supported by a flatbed truck. the float is decorated with swags of sheer fabric, garlands of light-colored flowers and a flame mandorla behind the girl dressed as the Virgin.
Possibly related to the dedication of the new church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Calexico. Reported in "Catholics set for dedication," Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1939: B14.
Text from negative sleeve: 15833. Our Lady. Guadalupe. Return to News Bureau. Wallace Nepo. [Stamped:] Mar 1 1939.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14869
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Catholic children--California, Southern
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Floats (Parades)--California
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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