Polytechnic High School students on float, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Polytechnic High School students on float, 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” … "Incas," Polytechnic High School ...
Float decorated as pyramid, with steps at front and designs on side, with about five students in Inca costume, one standing in center with spear, 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

Incas in art
Events
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Arts
Youth

Names

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

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013689

Latitude

-118.288557

Resource type

still image