"King of Flowers" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Title: "King of Flowers" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created: January 2, 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description: "King of Flowers" float entered by the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona. "LA County Fair" is written in flowers on the side of the float. The float is drawn by 6 Norman horses from the Kellogg School of Animal Husbandry. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Animals
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Transportation
Names: Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14578364170100
Latitude: -118.16016912460300
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3280
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cnnpp
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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.