Declaration of Independence float at the Pageant of Liberty, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Declaration of Independence float at the Pageant of Liberty, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

July 5, 1926

Date

1926-07-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with photo page, "Pageant of Liberty Stirs Throng of 50,000 at the Coliseum," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Thousands Hail Liberty Drama: Pageant Stirs Emotions of Vast Coliseum Crowd: Historical Scenes Enacted at Patriotic Event: New Citizens Introduced as Feature of Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A1.
The Declaration of Independence float at the Pageant of Liberty. Men dressed as the Founding Fathers in Colonial garb ride the float. A man driving in the float is visible underneath the table. Men with drums are at the left of the photograph, men dressed as Colonial military are at the right carrying muskets.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Pageant of Liberty 1926
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Text from newspaper caption: Signing the Declaration of Indpendence

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Latitude

-118.287778

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Historical pageants--California--Los Angeles
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles