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Parade Float
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A parade float elaborately decorated with flowers and pulled by four robed horses is traveling west along East Doty Street, with the Central (Fess) Hotel in the background. A woman is riding on the float in a winged throne. Two men in white are riding horses, while two other men in street clothes are walking alongside. A dark horse's head behind a utility pole is in the right foreground.
1905
Middleton Family
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WHi 83345
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