"Conquest of India" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- "Conquest of India" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
- Date Created
- January 1, 1936
- Date
- 1936-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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"Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" is the theme of the float submitted by the Pasadena Water Department, with 2 veiled ladies seated before a temple (Alice Williams and Anna McDougall) and Alexander the Great (Sammy Schwartz) riding a golden chariot. Three of the 8 out-walkers are visible; young men dressed as Indian princes.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Williams, Alice
Tournament of Roses
McDougel, Anna
Schwartz, Sammy - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_13377
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnjz1
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .