Subject: Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the large wooden cross at the south end of Olvera Street, on a stepped circular, river stone base, bearing a floral wreath and sign in memory of Will Rogers and a large candle. The sign reads: "Will Rogers / Los Mexicanes De La Calle Olvera Lamentan In Muerta." A woman in Spanish dress a black veil over head kneels before the cross.
Date:: September 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The children delighted in the festivities surrounding Olvera Street, donning velvet jackets and embroidered dresses. There was an acrobatic monkey performing, as well as the Mascaras, whose masks were created by Ramon Rodriguez.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be related to the article, “Founding of Los Angeles Re-enacted at Colorful Pageant on Olvera Street With Biscailuz as de Neve: City’s Birthday Date Marked in Festivities,” Los Angeles Times, 05 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 4, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A girl sits on the lap of one of the Mascaras, feeling part of his mask.
Date:: April 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, “Founding of Los Angeles Re-enacted at Colorful Pageant on Olvera Street with Biscailuz as de Neve: City’s Birthday Date Marked in Festivities,” Los Angeles Times, 05 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Daniel wears a sombrero as he pushes Raymundo in the carriage, who plays with a toy and wears a very large straw hat.
Date:: August 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mourners pray at a temporary altar at the Olvera Street memorial service for Los Angeles Times columnist Harry Carr. The altar contains a small statue of the Virgin Mary lit candles and a potted poinsettia. One woman holds a Crucifix and others hold lit candles.
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of participants in the Olvera Street memorial service for Los Angeles Times columnist Harry Carr, beneath a striped canvas awning with mourners beneath umbrellas further back. The Chito Montoya stringed orchestra plays in the foreground and singers face a microphone (for radio KMTR), in the center. It is draped with a black wreath and black-rimmed photograph of Mr. Carr bearing the farewell "Vaya Va Con Dios." Ernesto A. Romero, Vice-Culsul for Mexico in Los Angeles, wears a trench coat and glasses (right). In front of him in a black lace veil and holding a sheet of music is Consuela de Bonzo, a Mexican community leader (owner of the restaurant Casa La Golondrina at 17 Olvera St.).
Date:: January 11, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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