Captain William Banning driving a stagecoach at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1936

Title: Captain William Banning driving a stagecoach at the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, 1936
Date Created: September 20, 1936
Date: 1936-09-20
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The historical pageant, La Fiesta de la Rancho San Jose, at the Los Angeles County Fair celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first Spanish settlers, Don Ygnacio Palomares and Don Arcardo Vejar to the Pomona Valley.
Captain William Banning, in white, drives a stagecoach from his father Phineas Banning's line established over eighty years ago in San Pedro. The side of the stagecoach reads, "Overland Stage Coach Club." Riding alongside Banning are possible family members and friends.
Different photographs of the parade taken on the same occasion appear with the article, “County Fair Fiesta Recalls Settling of Pomona Valley,” Los Angeles Times, 21 Sept. 1936: 1, 7, 20.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 6639 – L. A. county Fair – Pageant (nitrate + safety) Sept. – 1936 (1 removed for cleaning) Box 5 [stamped, twice:] OCT 7 - 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Banning, William, 1857-1946
Los Angeles County Fair (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Location: Pomona (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.089514
Latitude: -117.772611
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pomona
Stagecoaches--California--Pomona
Fairs--California--Pomona

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14536
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j84s4
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