"100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Item Overview

Title
"100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created
January 1, 1936
Publisher
Los Angeles Times
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
Description
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the "100% American," designed by Antelope valley high school students around the theme of the melting pot. Seated in a bed of flowers are girls of 4 countries: Holland, Russia, Japan and the United States. Perched on the throne is Georgia Graves as the Goddess of Liberty.
Caption
Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Names
Graves, Georgia
Tournament of Roses
Location
Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type
still image

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Repository
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier
uclamss_1429_13362
ARK
ark:/21198/zz002hnjf8
Manifest url
IIIF Manifest

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Rights statement
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Rights contact
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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
Creative Commons License
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