Felipe Delgado as Felipe De Neve at the opening of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1931

Title: Felipe Delgado as Felipe De Neve at the opening of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created: September 4, 1931
Date: 1931-09-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A man in period costume reads from a scroll before a microphone at La Fiesta Plaza. Behind him are men and children in period costume as well, two of them dressed as colonial missionaries.
Felipe Delgado, dressed as Don Felipe de Neve, reenacts the naming of El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles on September 4, 1781. Surrounding him are folks representing Los Pobladores, the group of forty-four Spanish settlers. The event took place at La Plaza at Olvera Street.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Drama of City’s Birth Enacted Anew,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep 1931: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: La Fiesta Plaza
Text from negative sleeve: Parade La Fiesta no contacts Sept. 1931 not printed 8/79

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2537
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dcb1b
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