Names: Old Spanish Days Fiesta (Santa Barbara, Calif.) / Subject: Events and Culture - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Santa Barbara Fiesta Revives Days of Spanish Rule in California," 8/8/1930.
Date:: August 7, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possible bridal procession at the parade for the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara. View of 1 couple and 6 men in Spanish-style dress on horseback. The woman wears a light-colored dress with ruffles and a lace mantilla over a high comb. The men wear dark, close-fitting embroidered suits with short jackets and hats with ribbon bands. The couple may be the bride and groom who were married during the fiesta that year as described in a 8/19/1932 Los Angeles Times article titled "Historic Pageant Opens Santa Barbara Fiesta..." stating "The bridal pair on horseback were escorted by many riders by caballero and senorita, while a creaking careta carried members of the family of both bride and groom."
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Historic Pageant Opens Santa Barbara Fiesta," 8/19/1932.
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rider in embroidered Spanish horseman's costume and ornate sombrero-type hat on horse with ornate tooled saddle at the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara. The rider probably participated in the fiesta parade.
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Historic Pageant Opens Santa Barbara Fiesta," 8/19/1932.
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spanish Galleon Float in the parade of the Old Spanish Days Festival in Santa Barbara pulled by a team of 2 horses and carrying a driver and 2 boys dressed as Spanish explorers holding swords
Date:: August 7, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Historic Pageant Opens Santa Barbara Fiesta," 8/19/1932.
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter bids farewell to group in 19th century costumes departing Los Angeles in a stagecoach for the 2-day journey to the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, where they were to participate in the parade and deliver an invitation to the Los Angeles World Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo. The group includes: (front, L to R) Hilton McCabe, Francis Josef Hickson (stage actor), Marion Parks (California history advocate), John C. Porter, Thomas Workman Temple (early California family member), (in coach, L to R) Miss Irene Tillinghast (of the Los Angeles Museum of History and Science), Orpha Klinker (California artist), (on top) Jose Arias, left, and his celebrated Mexican orchestra (Jose Arias Troubadours) holding guitars and possibly a mandolin, with driver Buster Trow (silent Westerns actor). "U.S. Mail" and "Louisville and..." are painted on the stagecoach.
Date:: August 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two women 19th century attire in a horse-drawn cart during the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara in an unpaved area with grandstand seats in the background
Date:: August 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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