Molly Pitcher float at the Pageant of Liberty, Los Angeles, 1926
Item Overview
- Title
- Molly Pitcher float at the Pageant of Liberty, Los Angeles, 1926
- Date Created
- July 5, 1926
- Date
- 1926-07-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Molly Pitcher float at the Pageant of Liberty. A woman dressed as Molly Pitcher stands on the float. Men dressed in Colonial garb also ride on the float, and women dressed in costumes walk behind. The float is topped with an American flag and covered with wood. The Lafayette at Valley Forge float is visible in the background.
This photograph appears with photo page, "Pageant of Liberty Stirs Throng of 50,000 at the Coliseum," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926:
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Thousands Hail Liberty Drama: Pageant Stirs Emotions of Vast Coliseum Crowd: Historical Scenes Enacted at Patriotic Event: New Citizens Introduced as Feature of Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A1.
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.)
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.014167
- Latitude
- -118.287778
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Historical pageants--California--Los Angeles
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7102
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cxfhs
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .