Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas (LOC)

Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.

 

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas

 

2014-04-25.

 

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

 

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First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriages, baby buggies and bicycles with live flowers, met in front of the Alamo, and threw the blossoms at one another, is the event that spawned Fiesta as it is known today. Soon other activities joined the flower parade: balls, parties and a carnival. The celebration's name changed over the years from Carnival to Spring Carnival to Fiesta San Jacinto and, in 1960, to Fiesta San Antonio.

Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).

Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

 

Subjects:

Battle of Flowers Parade.--Fiesta San Antonio.--Parades.--America.

United States--Texas--San Antonio.

 

Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.28853

 

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 28853

 

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