Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2013.41.267
Accession#:
2013.41
Credit Line:
Donated by Albert Shaw.
Object Name:
Slide, Transparency
Title:
Filipino Float, Second Prize for Most Beautiful Float. 4th of July, 1959.
Place:
Juneau, Alaska
Date:
July 4, 1959
Year Range from:
1959
Year Range to:
1959
Description:
A photographic slide in a small cardboard Kodachrome frame (off white with yellow and red corner trim). The frame is labeled "Filipino Float 4th 59 2nd Prize, Most Beautiful Depicts Greeting from P. Republic to 49th State" in handwriting. The image shows a wide dirt lot, captured diagonally. At left there is a low brown building bearing a sign reading "F.M.S. Electronics Division." Parked cars surround the structure. A float is stationary in the center of the image, covered in white and decorated with blue and yellow faux floral trim. A large blue star and what seems to be a depiction of a seashell are attached to the rear of the float. Two women sit atop the float, one in a blue dress and the other in a yellow cape. The float is apparently a tribute to Alaskan statehood from the Philippine Republic. The number "15" is printed in red ink on the frame at the upper left.
People:
Shaw, Albert
Scheibe, Margaret Shaw
Shaw, Katherine
Search Terms:
Photography
Slide
Juneau
Cityscape
July 4
Parade
Mountain
State
Statehood
Filipino
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