"Germany" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932
Item Overview
- Title
- "Germany" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932
- Date Created
- January 1, 1932
- Date
- 1932-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The "Germany" float features a log cabin emitting a wisp of smoke in front of the Schwarzwald--the Black Forest. A ski jumper (Russell Mercer) and bob-sledress (Esther May Muhleman) represent the German Youth Movement (Freideutsche Jugend). The float was designed by Georgia Josephine Chobe and is shown at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1932
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14594346920720
- Latitude
- -118.16064119339000
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Culture
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cp6gr
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .