Mildred Howell Lewis, winner of the 1896 Fiesta de las Flores of Los Angeles, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- Mildred Howell Lewis, winner of the 1896 Fiesta de las Flores of Los Angeles, 1936
- Date Created
- April 4, 1936
- Date
- 1936-04-04
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mrs. Lewis sits upright in an armchair in an otherwise empty sitting room.
Mildred Howell Lewis was crowned queen of the third Los Angeles Fiesta de las Flores in 1896, but lost the medal that went along with the honor, until it was discovered recently by two blacksmiths shifting through ash heaps recently in Santa Ana.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Long-Lost Gift Found," Los Angeles Times, 03 Apr 1936: A1.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs - Names
- Lewis, Mildred Howell, b. 1873
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Portrait photographs
Widows--California--Los Angeles
Medals
Awards
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13810
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j78r3
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- 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 .