Berendo Junior High School students in costume on float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Berendo Junior High School students in costume on float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Date Created

June 5, 1925

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1925, “California the Golden” Notable Achievement, Spectacle of Schools Depicting History of State Acclaimed by Visiting Shriners. The public schools’ contribution to the Shrine entertainment, “California the Golden” … "The Golden Hind," Berendo Junior High School ...
Float decorated as sailing ship The Golden Hind, with about seven students riding costumed as Sir Francis Drake and crew, with sign reading Golden Hind, Drake's Ship, Berendo Junior High, on coliseum track with audience in background

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: School Kids Parade, Coliseum 1925, Shrine Convention
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shriners, Parade, 1925

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Events
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Youth
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Arts
Culture

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Golden Hind (Ship) In art
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America
Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 In art
Berendo Junior High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.014028

Latitude

-118.287992

Resource type

still image