"Hiawatha's wooing" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1929

Title: "Hiawatha's wooing" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1929
Date Created: January 1, 1929
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description: "Hiawatha's wooing" float with a full-sized tepee and Hiawatha (Richard Young), Minnehaha (Margaret Lalone), arrow maker (R. Cawkins) and three children dressed as Indian youngsters. The float was entered by the city of Sierra Madre. The float is at the intersection of Colorado Blvd. and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1929. nitrates.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Events
Names: Cawkins, R.
Young, Richard
Lalone, Margaret
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.1455882965605
Latitude: -118.1608772277830
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3419
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cp124
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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.