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Mariachi Jalisco band float in the Mexican Independence Day parade - Florida City, Florida

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Image Number

FS864909

Photographer

Nusz, Nancy, Collector.

Date

1986

Date Note

Photographed on September 15, 1985.

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Collection

Folklife Collection.
Series 1577, Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey ; no 42

Geographic Term

Dade County (Fla.)
Florida City (Fla.)

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

General Note

Banner on float reads, "Homestead Campus, Miami-Dade Community College". The celebration is known as El Grito.

Mariachi Jalisco band float in the Mexican Independence Day parade - Florida City, Florida

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Mariachi Jalisco band float in the Mexican Independence Day parade - Florida City, Florida

Subject

Mexican Americans

Parades--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Parade floats--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Hispanic Americans--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Popular music--Mexico

Folk music--Mexico

Music

Musical instruments

Brass instruments

Mariachi

Musical groups--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Bands (Music)--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Trumpet

Trumpet players

Instrumentalists

Ethnic festivals

Festivals--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Arts (Performing)--Florida--Dade County--Florida City

Musical traditions, Mexican

Ethnic patriotic celebrations

Mexican Independence Day

Ethnic customs, Mexican

Customs

Ethnicity, Mexico

Creator

Nusz, Nancy, Collector.

Date

1986

Identifier

FS864909

Image URL

/fpc/folklife/fs864909.jpg

Thumbnail

/fpc/folklife/fs864909.gif

Date Note

Photographed on September 15, 1985.

Geographic Term

Dade County (Fla.)

Florida City (Fla.)

Color

color

Physical Description

1 slide - col.

Series Title

Folklife Collection.

Folklife Collection Series 1577, Metro-Dade Folk Arts Survey ; no 42

General Note

Banner on float reads, "Homestead Campus, Miami-Dade Community College". The celebration is known as El Grito.

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Chicago Manual of Style

Nusz, Nancy, Collector. Mariachi Jalisco band float in the Mexican Independence Day parade - Florida City, Florida. 1986. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122472>, accessed 17 June 2026.

MLA

Nusz, Nancy, Collector. Mariachi Jalisco band float in the Mexican Independence Day parade - Florida City, Florida. 1986. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/122472>

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(State Archives of Florida/Nusz)

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