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Photo, Print, Drawing Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California

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Title

  • Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California

Names

  • Light, Ken (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • 1991 Oct. 6

Headings

  • -  Columbus Day
  • -  Italian-Americans--California--San Francisco--Social life and customs
  • -  Italian American girls
  • -  Parade floats--California--San Francisco
  • -  Parades--California--San Francisco
  • -  Photographs
  • -  California--Alameda County--San Francisco

Genre

  • Photographs

Notes

  • -  In a Columbus Day parade in San Francisco in 1991, Italian American girls dressed as angels ride with an image of the Madonna surrounded by flowers on a festival float created by the Societa de la Madonna del Lume. Festivities included a procession by members of the Societa de la Madonna del Lume to the Wharf and the blessing of the fishing fleet in San Francisco Bay.

Medium

  • 1 slide : color.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • IAW-KL-C115-4

Source Collection

  • The Italian-Americans in the West Project Collection (AFC 1989/022)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Light, Ken. Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California. Alameda County California San Francisco, 1991. Oct. 6. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/awhbib000058/.

APA citation style:

Light, K. (1991) Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California. Alameda County California San Francisco, 1991. Oct. 6. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/awhbib000058/.

MLA citation style:

Light, Ken. Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California. Oct. 6. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/awhbib000058/>.