Floral-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title
Floral-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created
October 9, 1936
Publisher
Los Angeles Daily News
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
Description
A floral-themed float including a throne, costumed participants and glowing flowers created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Caption
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Power parade
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Electrical Parade Celebrating Transmission of Boulder Dam Power

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Culture
Arts
Events
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
uclamss_1387_13774-04
ARK
ark:/21198/zz00288c2b
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

Access Condition

Rights statement
copyrighted
Rights Holder
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country
US
Funding Note
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License
Creative Commons License
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