San Jacinto Festival in West Columbia (1956)

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San Jacinto Festival in West Columbia (1956)

Brazoria County Historical Museum

Silent | 1956

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The parade commences, with floats from all over Brazoria County
A pageant queen from Lamar Consolidated High School in Rosenberg
Judy Reeves, a candidate for Belle of the Brazos from Angleton High School
The Angleton Rebekahs
The Freeport Rebekahs
Betty Hughes of Sweeny
Young couples in elaborate evening wear pose for the camera
Barbara Vandegrift of Boling
Jeanie Clark Harris of Brazoria

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This footage captures scenes of a parade in celebration of San Jacinto Festival in West Columbia, followed by couples in elaborate formal wear posing for the camera. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects.

Brazoria County
West Columbia