First locomotive at the Transportation Day parade for La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration, Los Angeles, 1931

Title: First locomotive at the Transportation Day parade for La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created: [circa September 5, 1931]
Date: 1931-09-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: A wide street view shows spectators alongside the street watching a parade float featuring an old locomotive lead by several white horses.
This photograph was likely taken on September 5, 1931, during the Transportation Day parade. Thousands of spectators gathered to watch the Parade on opening weekend of la Fiesta de Los Angeles. The parade route was along Broadway, East First and Main Streets.
A different photograph taken on the same day appears with the article, "Thousands Line Streets to See 'Ghosts of Past,'" Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep 1931: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: La Fiesta Parade Date unknown
Handwritten on negative: La Fiesta, First Engine

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Fiesta de Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.052511
Latitude: -118.244413
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Engines
Horses--California--Los Angeles
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2546
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dcbb0
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Rights Country: US
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