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Order Number	00075840
Title	Mannequins - Ramona Outdoor Play, Hemet
Collection ID	Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession	Hemet-Theaters-Ramona Pageant; N-000-085.3 4x5
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Hemet is a city in Riverside County that was founded in 1887 and incorporated on January 20, 1910 with 992 people. Members of the Cahuilla Indian tribe first inhabited the area. During the early 1800s, it became a cattle ranch for Mission San Luis Rey, which named the area Rancho San Jacinto. In 1895, the Hemet Dam was completed on the San Jacinto River creating Lake Hemet and providing a reliable water supply to the San Jacinto Valley. Despite a severe drought in 1898-1900 and a major Christmas Day earthquake in 1899, the town of Hemet continued to prosper. Every year since 1923 one of the city's claims to fame has been "The Ramona Pageant", an outdoor play based on Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Ramona". In 1950, Hemet was home to 10,000 people; as of January 2007, the city had a population of 70,288 according to the California Department of Finance.
Description	View of mannequins depicting key figures of the famed Ramona Outdoor Play in the colorful Ramona Bowl in Hemet. The novel, set in Southern California shortly after the Mexican-American War, follows the life of Ramona, a part-Scottish, part-Indian orphan girl that is raised by her foster mother's sister, Sen~ora Gonzaga Moreno. The Indian maiden Ramona falls in love with Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder who is also the son of the Chief of the tribe. Soon after, Ramona and Alessandro elope to the chagrin of Sen~ora Gonzaga Moreno; have a daughter; endure hardship and misery; with Alessandro eventually losing his mind and being killed, leaving Ramona to find a new love in Felipe Moreno, Sen~ora Gonzaga Moreno's only son. This immensely popular novel has had more than 300 printings, has been made into four film versions, and has been performed as an annual outdoor play since 1923, with only brief interruptions during the Depression and during World War II. The people of Hemet and San Jacinto have presented this spectacular dramatization of Helen Hunt Jackson's immortal love story, which is said to take place on the actual locale of the historical facts in the play.
Subject	Ramona Bowl (Hemet, Calif.). Theater, Open-air--California--Hemet. Exhibitions--California--Hemet. Mannequins (Figures). Drama. Hemet (Calif.).
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection