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Title: [Scandinavian Children Festival at Woodwards Gardens, April 30th, 1873]
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Stereo-4862.
Orange mount, purple back.
Left side of stereo only, right missing. Title from handwritten note on verso. "Louise Lindsbog" -- handwritten below image. Shows children in costume. "No. 5" -- on verso.
Also have negative: no. 19,671.
Scandinavian children's May Eve Festival (Fanborga-messo Afton) and Picnic was held on April 30th, Woodward's Gardens. Consisted of processions, singing, dancing and performances -- San Francisco Alta, April 30, 1873, p. 1. May Eve Festival originally celebrated in much of northern Europe.
"Scandinavian Picnic, Woodward's Gardens, S.F., 1654 -- from complete stereo found at website http://www.carletonwatkins.org.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph card ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001560534CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Woodward's Gardens (San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
Scandinavian Americans--California--San Francisco--Photographs
Children--California--San Francisco
Festivals--California--San Francisco
Floats (Parades)--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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