File:Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiesta San Antonio celebration in Texas LCCN2014633033.tif

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

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; 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.; 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.
Date Taken on 25 April 2014, 13:45 (according to Exif data)
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Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5044454
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Camera location29° 25′ 29.17″ N, 98° 29′ 13.37″ W  Heading=29.71° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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