Belmont High School students in costume with float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Belmont High School students in costume with float depicting California history, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Date Created

June 5, 1925

Date

1925-06-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Float decorated as pyramid and god, with about eight students in Aztec costume with drums, spears, and arrows, marching on coliseum track, with audience in background
Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1925, “California the Golden” Notable Achievement, Spectacle of Schools Depicting History of State Acclaimed by Visiting Shriners. The public schools’ contribution to the Shrine entertainment, “California the Golden” … "Aztecs," Belmont High School ...

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: School Kids Parade, Coliseum 1925, Shrine Convention
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shriners, Parade, 1925

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Belmont High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.014028

Latitude

-118.287992

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Youth
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Arts
Aztecs in art
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Events