"China Clipper" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "China Clipper" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Photographer: Snyder, Bill
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Float representing the China clipper airplane with 'Los Angeles' and 'China Clipper' written on it viewed by crowd to celebrate Los Angeles Pacific air connections. Riding that float are Mariella Ferguson in Spanish costume at the front, and Virginia Grondahl in Hawaiian costume at the back. The float is passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Ferguson, Mariella
Tournament of Roses
Grondahl, Virginia
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145614
Latitude: -118.16039
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13418
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnmc6
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Rights Country: US
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