Sixty-Eighth Street School students on float, Shriners' parade, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1925

Item Overview

Title

Sixty-Eighth Street School students on float, 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 longboat with bird motif, carrying about six students in feather headdresses, some with oars, with sign reading Zuni Festival, Sixty-Eighth Street, 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” … "Zuni," Sixty-eighth-street 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.)
Sixty-Eighth Street School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013689

Latitude

-118.288557

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Youth
Zuni Indians in art
Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Events
Canoes and canoeing in art