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

Item Overview

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]

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Notes

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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Subject topic

Parades & processions
Coach drivers
African American men

Resource type

still image