Photograph - Fiestas Patrias Down Mill Avenue with Floyd Gomez & Lalo Lopez
Datec. 1910
MediumPhotograph
Dimensions5 1/8 × 7 1/4 in. (13 × 18.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrint, Photographic
Credit LineIrene Gomez Hormel Collection
Catalog number1994.22.7
DescriptionBlack and white photograph of Fiestas Patrias down Mill Ave c. 1910. Floyd Comez and Lalo Lopez lead the parade.Caption from the Tempe 150th Anniversary exhibit:
Horse-riding participants carry the flags of the United States and Mexico in Tempe’s 1930 Fiestas Patrias parade as they move south on Mill Avenue at 6th Street. Celebrated in Tempe since the 1870s, Fiestas Patrias is Mexico’s Independence Day.
Status
Not on view
May 4, 1977