Jane Priscilla Sousa with a marching band baton, San Diego, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Jane Priscilla Sousa with a marching band baton, San Diego, 1935

Date Created

November 11, 1935

Date

1935-11-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The California Pacific International Exposition has honored programs twenty years later at the organ amphitheater for the 1915 exposition.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fair Honors 1915 Board," Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct 1935: 2.
Jane Priscilla Sousa, granddaughter of composer and conductor John Phillip Sousa, smiles as she holds a marching band baton.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Strike up the band! No one has a better right to glorify band music than pretty Miss Priscilla Sousa pictured here, who led massed bands at the California Pacific International Exposition as they played "Stars and Stripes Forever," in honor of her illustrious grandfather, John Philip Sousa.
Text from negative sleeve: 2747 - Priscilla Sousa grd. Dau of Phillips Sousa 11- 7-35 [stamped:] Nov 11 1935
Handwritten on negative: Priscilla Sousa - grd. Dau. of Phillips 11-7-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Gillon, Jane Priscilla Sousa, 1917-1989

Location

San Diego (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Family members--American--California--San Diego
Musical instruments--California--San Diego