"Celestial Dragon" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- "Celestial Dragon" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
- Date Created
- January 1, 1935
- Date
- 1935-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
-
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The "Celestial Dragon" float features a floral dragon on a stairway, coiled around a pagoda. A float rider in a Chinese dress and lovely headdress is visible (Violet Leong or Midred Ginn). The float was designed by E. M. Pitzer and was entered by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and was photographed at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.145671
- Latitude
- -118.160541
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3712
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpccm
- Manifest url
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 .