Mayor Glenn Evans honors festival Queen Gabriela Quiroz with festival King Thomas W. Temple, San Gabriel, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Mayor Glenn Evans honors festival Queen Gabriela Quiroz with festival King Thomas W. Temple, San Gabriel, 1935

Date Created

September 1935

Date

1935-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A series of special events and entertainment including parades, music, and a coronation ceremony honoring the King and Queen of the festival - Thomas W. Temple and Gabriela Quiroz are some events of the three-day festival marking the Old Mission's 164th birthday anniversary.
Photograph appears with the article, "San Gabriel in Gay Color," Los Angeles Times, 07 Sep 1935: A5.
Mayor Evans places a crown on Gabriela's head. She wears a sash over her white dress. Thomas stands on the other side of her wearing a charro suit and sombrero, which Mayor Evans also wears.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2050 - Preview of crowning fiesta Queen left to right. Mayor Glenn Evans, Gabriela Quiroz, Thomas Workman Temple 2nd. San Gabriel Fiesta 7-7-35 [stamped:] Sep 18 1935
Handwritten on negative: Thomas Workman Temple 2nd Gabriela Quiroz Glenn Evans
Text from newspaper caption: A preview coronation of Gabriela Quiroz as queen of La Fiesta de San Gabriel, opening today, was held yesterday. Left to right, Mayor Evans, Miss Quiroz and Thomas W. Temple.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Quiroz, Gabriela, 1909-2006
Temple, Thomas Workman, 1905-1972
Evans, Glenn E., b. 1893

Location

San Gabriel (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Anniversaries--California--San Gabriel
Mayors--California--San Gabriel
Festivals--California--San Gabriel
Crowns