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Title: Cinco de Mayo celebration in Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Stewart, Lucille
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Secretary for Foreign Relations and former Washington ambassador, visited Los Angeles in May, 1945. During his visit, he was honored at a special Cinco de Mayo ceremony held at Los Angeles City Hall. Some other prominent guests at the event included: Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Mexican Consul General Col. Vicente Peralta, and Bishop Joseph T. McGucken.
About forty thousand people attend a special Cinco de Mayo celebration held on the Spring Street steps of the Los Angeles City Hall.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00088661
Lucille Stewart Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b14_f1_i19; GPC_b15_f1_i19_N
CARL0004964904
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/123583
Subject: Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday)
Celebrations--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles

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