Carriage with an African American coach driver and four young white women in a floral parade float, 1890-1910

Title: Carriage with an African American coach driver and four young white women in a floral parade float, 1890-1910
Alternative title: Parades in Early Black Los Angeles
Date Created: [1890-1910]
Date: 1890/1910
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Parade with an African American coach driver dressed in a white suit and top hat driving a floral, horse-drawn carriage. Four white women in white dresses and sun bonnets ride along. There is a multi-story commercial building in the background which may be a storefront church with signs reading "Godless [...]," "Behold he Come [...] Jesus / [Every] eye shall see [...] also which pierce." The partial face of a horse to the left.
Caption: Written on back of photo: Credit: Sec Pac. National Bank Photo Coll/ L.A. Pub library.