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Title: Cinco de Mayo observance
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: The local Mexican American colony in 1953 celebrated Cinco de Mayo, the fifth of May, the day on which Austrian Archduke Maximillian was deposed and executed in 1866. Here at historic Avila House on Olvera Street participants placed flowers before a portrait of Gen. Ignacio Zaragaza, who overthrew the Austrian leader. In the group are: Miguel Garcia, Margarita Garcia, Virginia Henandez, and Beatrice Aguirre.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057100
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3692.
CARL0000061269
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22232
Subject: Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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