Will Rogers Commemorative float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: Will Rogers Commemorative float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: A tribute to Will Rogers, following his death the previous year, at the 1936 Tournament of Roses Parade, surrounded by an unknown number of spectators. A tribute by the Union Oil Company, the float depicts a riderless horse in front of a large star to represent Rogers's career. The float won the grand prize award for the parade.
The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 12584, 27
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses Parade

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Culture
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1387_12584-01
12584
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002553j4
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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