Mrs. Charles Atwood and Louis Vegar ride a horse and donkey during the San Gabriel Festival, San Gabriel, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mrs. Charles Atwood and Louis Vegar ride a horse and donkey during the San Gabriel Festival, San Gabriel, 1935

Date Created

September 7, 1935

Date

1935-09-07

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Louis is a young boy riding on Susie, a donkey with a dark coat and a white face. Mrs. Atwood sits on a horse that is much taller than Louis and the donkey.
San Gabriel, the oldest Christian community in Los Angeles County, is host to the Southland in a three-day festival celebrating her 164th birthday anniversary.
Photograph appears with the article, "San Gabriel Festival Coronation Conducted," Los Angeles Times, 08 Sep 1935: 24.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2050 - Mrs. Charles Atwood of Rio Hondo and Louis Vejar of Puente. San Gabriel Fiesta 9 - 7 - 35 [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Handwritten on negative: Louis Vegar Mrs. Charles Atwood
Text from newspaper caption: Left to right, Mrs. Charles Atwood of Rio Hondo Rancho, riding on Gold, and Louis Vegar of Puente, on his burro Susie, received plaudits of the thousands of spectators as they traversed the packed street of the city.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Vegar, Louis
Atwood, Charles, (Mrs.)

Location

San Gabriel (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bridles
Feces
Donkeys--California--San Gabriel
Children--California--San Gabriel
Festivals--California--San Gabriel
Straw hats
Horses--California--San Gabriel
Saddles