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

Item Overview

Title

McKinley 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

Float decorated as the mythical land of Ophir, with about 12 costumed students riding, 3 walking ahead, on coliseum track with audience in background
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 Gold of Ophir," McKinley Junior High School ...

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
Ophir in art
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Youth

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McKinley Junior High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013660

Latitude

-118.288372

Resource type

still image