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Title
Patriotic flower floats being towed out to sea, Los Angeles
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of patriotic flower floats being towed out to sea, Los Angeles, [s.d.]. A man dressed in a dark, long jacket stands in the small flatboat in the foreground, while a second, seated man dressed in white tends to the boat further up the deck. They trail behind them five prism-shaped flower floats decorated with American flag motifs. In the background, another small boat passes across the frame. Picture file card reads: "F.F. Storey, pres. Of the Chamber of Commerce".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17863 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6823
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17863
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6823.jpg
Subject
Rites and ceremonies
Seamen
Oceans
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
6823 [Accession number]
CHS-6823 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
chs-m265

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