Decorated float carrying Catholic girls Calexico (?), 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Decorated float carrying Catholic girls Calexico (?), 1939
- Date Created
- circa March 1, 1939
- Date
- 1939-03-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Fifteen visible girls, wearing festive dresses, some with sashes with lettering, and one dressed as the Lady of Guadalupe (?), on a float on a float supported by a flatbed truck. the float is decorated with swags of sheer fabric, garlands of light-colored flowers and a flame mandorla behind the girl dressed as the Virgin.
Possibly related to the dedication of the new church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Calexico. Reported in "Catholics set for dedication," Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1939: B14. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 15833. Our Lady. Guadalupe. Return to News Bureau. Wallace Nepo. [Stamped:] Mar 1 1939.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- California, Southern
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Catholic children--California, Southern
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Floats (Parades)--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14869
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j8j85
- Manifest url
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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 .