"Blazing the Trail Westward" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- "Blazing the Trail Westward" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1928
- Date Created
- January 2, 1928
- Date
- 1928-01-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- English
- Collection
-
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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The theme of the 1928 Rose Parade was a League of Nations in flowers
"Blazing the Trail Westward" float with live oxen in front of a covered wagon, a teepee, and people dressed as American Indians and frontiersmen. Two outriders on horses are dressed as frontiersmen. The sign on the side of the float reads: "Utah. Western Auto Supply Co. Utah."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.145744
- Latitude
- -118.160202
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Events
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Arts
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3394
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cp056
- Manifest url
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 .