"Orange is King" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

Title: "Orange is King" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created: January 1, 1930
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: "Orange is King" float with an enthroned orange king and 2 heralds, pulled by a train engine with the date of the National Orange Show in San Bernardino on the side "Feb. 13-29." Gordon Elliott is the king and Nancy Caswell and Alta Faulkner are the heralds. The float is at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Entertainment
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Arts
Culture
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Names: Faukner, Alta
Caswell, Nancy
Elliott, Gordon
National Orange Show
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145535020534700
Latitude: -118.16074848175000
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3451
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cp255
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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.