"Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West" in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Title: "Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West" in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: January 1, 1927
Date: 1927-01-01
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: Close-up of a girl wearing a traditional Chada hat and a robe and wielding a scepter on the "Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West." The float was entered by the city of Whittier.
1927 was the first year the the Tournament of Roses Parade had a theme, "Songs in Flowers," with each float typifying a song
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Pasadena Rose Tourney, year 1927; 2081 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: California--Pasadena.
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Ethnic costume--Thailand

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_0116
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bd79n
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.