First Continental Congress float at the Pageant of Liberty at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926
Item Overview
- Title
- First Continental Congress float at the Pageant of Liberty at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926
- Date Created
- July 5, 1926
- Date
- 1926-07-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This photograph is very similar to another one of the First Continental Congress float that appears with photo page, "Pageant of Liberty Stirs Throng of 50,000 at the Coliseum," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A12.
The First Continental Congress float at the Pageant of Liberty. Men dressed as the Founding Fathers in Colonial garb ride a float that is labeled, "First Continental Congress 1774." A large crowd is gathered in the stands. Other men, also dressed in colonial garb, walk toward the float.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Thousands Hail Liberty Drama: Pageant Stirs Emotions of Vast Coliseum Crowd: Historical Scenes Enacted at Patriotic Event: New Citizens Introduced as Feature of Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A1. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Pageant of Liberty 1926
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.014167
- Latitude
- -118.287778
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Historical pageants--California--Los Angeles
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7097
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cxfb6
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .