This photograph is related to the article, "State's Admission to Union Feted in Historic Parade: All California United in Colorful Procession Quarter of Million Persons Thrilled as Floats and Flags Fill Downtown Streets," Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep 1931: A1
The camera down the Coliseum's field during the USC and Notre Dame football game. The Band of the Fighting Irish marches in rows across the image, towards the left, as they step onto the field. Balloons float above them. In the background, the stadium's stands stretch across the image. The Coliseum's peristyle entrance stands in the distance, off-center to the left.
A Labor Day parade travels towards camera as it proceeds down Broadway. The scene is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective looking southwest. Broadway enters from the bottom right corner and stretches back into the distance at left. First Street intersects Broadway in the foreground. At center, a marching band travels down Broadway and towards camera as they approach the intersection. Spectators line 1st Street at left. More spectators line Broadway as it stretches into the distance. Buildings stand along the left edge and stretch along the right side of Broadway.
Elks Lodge marching band with a banner partially reading "...Lodge...B. P." followed by a float in the form of an Uncle Sam hat the Drummer Boys of '61 portrayed by G.A.R. veterans riding inside the hat.